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'''"Seventy-Six Trombones"''' is the signature song from the [[1957]] musical play ''[[The Music Man]]'', written by [[Meredith Willson]]. The song also appeared in the [[1962]] and [[2003]] movie versions.

'''Jalapeño poppers''' are [[jalapeño]] [[chile pepper|pepper]]s that have been hollowed out, stuffed with a mixture of [[cheese]], [[spices]], and sometimes ground meat, and then deep fried. They are served (usually with some kind of dip) as appetizers at some Mexican- or Southwest-themed bars and restaurants.

==External links==

:''Seventy-six trombones led the big parade,''

*[http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_24509,00.html Emeril Live! Tailgating Recipe Contest Winner]

:''With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand ...''

*[http://southernfood.about.com/od/jalapenochilerecipes/r/bl21220b.htm Mexican Recipe]

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One of Willson's arrangements of the song seamlessly integrates other popular [[march (music)|marches]] at the time, such as "[[The Stars and Stripes Forever (march)|The Stars and Stripes Forever]]", "[[The Washington Post (march)|The Washington Post]]" by [[John Philip Sousa]] (with whom he played in his band), "[[National Emblem (march)|The National Emblem]]" by [[Edwin Eugene Bagley]] and "Second Regiment, Connecticut National Guard" by D.W. Reeves.

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'Professor' Harold Hill uses the song to help the townspeople of 'River City' visualize their children playing in an enormous [[marching band]]. An average-sized high-school marching band might have 10 musicians playing the [[trombone]], and a large university band seldom has more than 30. The band that Harold is describing includes 76 trombones, 110 [[cornet]]s, "over a thousand reeds," and "fifty mounted [[cannon]]" (actually quite popular in bands of the time); if such a band actually existed, it would be over a mile long.

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