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The Humalong Song has quite a history.
It was first performed in 1980 in a Christmas production of Cinderella
at Hamilton Place, Hamilton, Ontario, when it received critical acclaim
by the press as a 'highlight of the show'. The following year it was
produced as a single by Berandol of Toronto, just as Dorothy's It's Christmas came out on the record album Santa Claus is
Canadian.
Since then the song has been heard on Canadian TV and Radio and on BBC
Radio in the UK. It has also featured on the Fred Penner Children's
Show on CBC Television.
In 1982 The Humalong Song was published by Gordon V Thompson in the Schools' series
Canada is Music, and in the same year appeared alongside my It's Christmas in the Musicanada series published by Holt, Rinehart, Winston of Canada.
Humalong was next heard in the summer of 1990 at Huron County Playhouse II, Grand Bend, Ontario, in
the first production Dorothy's musical
The Girl on the Mountain.
Now forming the climax to her 'Symphonic Tale in Poetry and Song' The Pied
Piper, since 1996 it has had several highly successful performances with major orchestras in Canada and in New Zealand.
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