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| | Oscar Brand Celebrates 60 Years on the Air (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Congratulations to BMI songwriter Oscar Brand, who recently celebrated his 60th anniversary as host of the weekly "Folksong Festival" show on New York public radio station WNYC-AM820. |
 | | Brand is the curator of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, author of seven best-selling books, has recorded 90 LPs, and has written songs for Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte, the Smothers Brothers and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. |
 | | He has been on the faculty of The New School, New York University and Hofstra University, and holds a B.S. in Psychology from Brooklyn College, a Laureate from Fairfield University and an honorary Doctorate from the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, where he was born. |
| www.bmi.com /news/200602/20060201a.asp (535 words) |
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