The Golden Wedding

This article is about a piece of music. For the play from 1771, see Desfontaines-Lavallée.

"The Golden Wedding" (La Cinquantaine) is a piece of music which was composed by Jean Gabriel Marie in 1887. It was a hit for Woody Herman and his orchestra in 1940. They played a swing arrangement of the work by James "Jiggs" Noble, which became a jazz standard. [1]

References

  1. ↑ Woody Herman, Stuart Troup (1990), The Woodchopper's Ball, E.P. Dutton, p. 20, ISBN 9780525248538
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