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Show - f ... x"4 It -- r jt-S- T.5' rr3v W" j 'A Ae v ' aV ST r V a. JL . 1 ' 1 W" c ' 'wV i2 Trsst, t- - i z 'Xx NV X ....?mr-'- i 'v-'4- - -- -' 777lx . - - IW!l 'jw JW2v t , - ?'' f "W - y that remains of what was Utahs largest barn Is this pile of tumbled lumber. The barn, valued j at $100,009, was located on Mountain Meadow Ranch at Kimballs Junction, U.S. 40. (Story Page B-l- ). Tribune Staff Writer Retirement? Songwriter Just Keeps On He started to tap his brown weave shoes, drum on the table and sing a tale of ma and pa to the tunes of John Phillip Sousa The people m tne Hotel Utah lobby started to stare If I could have sung. I could have made millions But the worse song I ever wrote was better than most, bragged Haven Gdlespie At 86 Mr Gillespie really doesn t have to worry about money Hes made a fortune by penning such musical standards as Santa Claus Is ComBreezin Along With ing To Town. You Go To My Head, the Breeze. Honey (Im in Love With You, Honey) and Drifting and Dreaming At the mention of one of his more than 500 songs Mr. Gillespie would sing a few bars, and the lobby would turn around. He was loving every minute of the attention A woman from Tennessee introduced herself, and before she left, Mr Gillespie handed her one of his rare coins as a memento tthv, thanh you ''he drawled son will love it M Breezin Along a VxA ' ' " v'f X v X. O .s' S' vx - aX '' -- ? NX' " ,;X I x XX' X, . vc , A yy yr; X ;. x, 1 . j'AXss&a By Angelyn Nelson Retire? Whats X' ' vi . AQ HA . ;xx y' V , : - 111 tell Mi you whv its rare It s Gillespie replied m a poker face the only coin I ever got out of a dot machine resident of Las egas, Mr Gille spie visited Utah to attend a special A When this wall of barn at Mountain Meadow Ranch was blown to the ground, timbers were splintered anniversary with friends He was celebrating his lfith sober anniversary with other former alcoholics frail looking man whose freckles show' through wisps of white hair. Mr Gillespie reminisced about song writ ing A traveling companion claims Mr Gillepsie can retell anv story daling back to 189b you know, the year Bryan ran against McKinley. without dropping a comma A He wTote his first song as a child in the 18s Titled Go-iOld Rag, it was a song about his poor family in Covington, Ky , written to a John Phillip Sousa march But his career wasn't really launched until 1913 when Mr Gillespie, who was working as a printer, took his composition, Moonlight Makes Me Lonesome," to the Bonneville Theater m Cincinnati. Ohio song-wntin- g There was an act, a man, woman and their baby, who were performing at the theater, he remembered The woman loved the song She composed a dance for it and put it m their act Sity-tvvyears later, the baby cornered Mr Gillespie in a Las Vegas hotel In 1934 he vTote his biggest tit. A Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 15 to write him Oct on asked publisher a Christmas song Mr Gillespie pro tested saving promotion for holidav songs usually begins in June Two weeks later, after Eddie Cantor had turned it into a smash, Mr Gillespie remembered the publisher taking a comrade aside wth "cm give this $1 000 to Haven and show him the town ' we have the radio now, you Gillespie quoted the pub- While he wrote "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town' in ihe subway, he got the idea for Breezin' Along With the Breeze in an Ohio railway station Well know, lisher Mr I knew guys who would crawl on their hands and knees from Hollywood to Timbuktu fcr the chance," Mr Gill took it, but I was espie continued also afraid of failing When they bet on a songwriter it's like betting on a race horse If he loses, they never bet on you again The idea came easily 1 One Cbjnstmas. when I was a child my mother, who had her hands full, said, If you dont wash your hands and the back of your neck 1 11 tell Santa Claus That's vv here I got he the tine 'you better watch out. said ' It ther as closing his eyes with the mem orv of m mother dancing to that song Gdlespie continued as both a songwriter and a printer, working his Mr was raining when left the Mi Gillespie continued I had a piece of paper stulfed in a hole in my shoe and I needed a drink Matier of fact I never did get that drink 1 otfice ' I off the subway, he almost got us run over on 49th Street," he said o ou made my father verv happv, Martha Rave told Mr Gillespie 'Nothing has been so sweet for m fa and top pane of window was shattered. The bottom pane was not even cracked. (See story Page B I I way to a master printer on the New York Times ' wrote that sung on thp B M sub (in New Aork) on the ride fiorn 8th to 44th street Mv friend was snap pirg his gum and calling out the street names distracting me When we got 1 in 1928 It about was vwo zero below that station," the songwriter said There was a potbelly stove, but there never was a fire in it I stepped out onto the platform to watch for the tram, and I saw some hobos all dressed in khakis crossing a bridge over the tracks m One of them yelled out, Hey .mishow far to Miami? ter, you know By the time he was halfway home, another song was oorn I got to thinking. They eat when they want Theyre never going to be late because there's no time dock to punch Just breezin along Mr Gillespies songwritirg didn stop in the 1429s or Ills He G now with Elvis Ireslev to negotiating sing a 1471 composition, Glory Dav," a semi spiritual 1 Haven Gillespie lamed Songwriter wav ing Retire What aids, pablum. Hear and a walking cane mm nuwtwr!P.s.Mr 'Mini Mmmm n y khijij ijmjj wwpiiitf iwiiMw.M7Mirif imm ItrftiWimniiMtti' r See the exciting Now through Labor Day 2600 East 8600 South Time: 11 2to11pm am to 11 Weekdays and Labor Day Weekends pm Visit the giant Air Dome! Parade 73 has the largest Air Dome in the West! The Dome is 300 feet long and 80 feet wide featuring 24,000 square feet of home pro. Admission: Weekdays 2- -5 p m Adults Si 00 Children $.50 (under 6 free) Weekdays after 5pm; Weekends and Labor Day Adults $1.50 Children $.75 (under 6 free) (Ticket booths close at 10 p.m.) color TV console and Win a Color TV! One GE h color TV console. 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