Video from 1956 Mummers String Bands. Featuring some of the classic themes like Quaker City White Cloud, Ferko Birds of Paradise, Hegeman's George M Cohen , and the 15th Prize Frainger Sting Band with Blue and Borken Hearted.
The City of Philadelphia finally sponsored and organized the first official Mummers Parade on January 1, 1901.
The first string band, Trilby, was organized in 1898, first paraded in 1902
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I was there, at the 1956 Mummers Parade, in a stroller and bundled up so my mother said. I don't remember a thing.