Fact #8511
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Songwriter Mildred Becker Schultz of San Francisco, California, USA, hears the song The Blacksmith Blues being played on a television show and believes it has been plagiarised from her 1941 composition Good Old Army. She will subsequently sue Tune Towne Tunes [the publisher of Blacksmith Blues], and singer Jack Holmes [who wrote the lyrics for The Blacksmith Blues].
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