Back the attack

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Date

1943

Authors

Adaskin, Murray [composer]
Gibbon, John Murray [lyricist]

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Publisher

Toronto, Canada : Gordon V. Thompson Ltd., [1943]

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Gift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.
Piano vocal [instrumentation]
Give the fighting man all eh wants to win the day [first line]
Back the attack and do what you can do [first line of chorus]
C [key]
Shield: symbol of Canada's 4th Victory Loan - The Four Freedoms [illustration]
Publisher's advertisement on inside front and back cover [note]
Middle leaf lost [note]
Back the Attack (1943) for chorus. Words written by John Murray Gibbon. Composed for the fund raising drive ?Victory Loan Campaign? to assist the sale of bonds for the World War II effort. (This composition does not seem to have survived. Information is obtained from The Montreal Gazette, April 19, 1943 --Lazarevich, Gordana & Robyn Cathcart. Murray Adaskin: An Annotated Catologue of his Music (2003).

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