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2 unusual facts about Charles Tobias


Charles Tobias

Immediately after Pearl Harbor, he and Cliff Friend wrote and recorded "We Did It Before And We Can Do It Again" on December 16, 1941.

In 1923, he founded his own music publishing firm and worked on Tin Pan Alley.


The Fifth-Column Mouse

That song was co-written in 1941 by Tin Pan Alley songwriter Charles Tobias (who also co-wrote the Merrie Melodies theme song some years earlier) as a response to the attack on Pearl Harbor.


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