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4 unusual facts about Ernest and Clarence Iverson


Ernest and Clarence Iverson

Slim Jim sided with the working man, and his first songbook even had an adaptaton of The Popular Wobbly by the Finnish-American labor activist T-Bone Slim.

Listeners might hear It Is No Secret, Just A Closer Walk With Thee or The Old Rugged Cross.

On the radio the Iversons would even sing current hits like When It's Lamp Lighting Time In The Valley and Mockin' Bird Hill.

The brothers' 1939 songbook was mostly in English but had a few Norwegian songs such as Kom Til Den Hvitmalte Kirke (The Church In The Wildwood) and Det Døende Barn (The Dying Child), whose author was Hans Christian Andersen.



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