Marching Band Dixieland Crackerjacks\r
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Dixieland Crackerjacks, Breda Jazz Festival 2010\r
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Michel Muller - trumpet\r
Lielian Tan - drums\r
Bert Brandsma - bass saxophone\r
Slidin Selena - trombone\r
Koos Greven - banjo\r
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Recorded by Bix Beiderbecke in the 1920s\r
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Im Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover is a song from 1927, written by Mort Dixon with music by Harry M. Woods. It was a hit for Art Mooney & His Orchestra in 1948 and was largely popularized by him. In modern times the song is perhaps most associated with Merrie Melodies cartoons, as it appeared in several of them. The Sons of Ben, the official supporters group of Major League Soccers Philadelphia Union, have adopted the song as one of their chants, singing at every home match at the 20 minute, ten second mark, symbolic as the founding year of the Union.\r
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n 1948 Columbia records released a recording of the song by Tiny Hill and the Hilltoppers.\r
The UCLA Band has played an arrangement of this tune since 1954, and uses the chorus as the second part of Rover, the Bruin victory song. Similar lyrics have been used for two other songs.\r
My Dead Dog Rover by Hank Stu Dave and Hank (Hank Landsberg & Dave Whited) from 1977, which appears on the Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary Collection - The parody version Im Looking Over my dead dog rover was played on Dr. Dementos show for a time.[1]\r
Im Lookin Over My Dead Dog Rover by Kevin Gershon from 1973 and played on KMET FM in Los Angeles\r
In the 1957 Warner Brothers Cartoon Ducking the Devil, directed by Robert McKimson, the Tasmanian Devil escapes from a zoo; Daffy Duck, on learning that theres a $5,000 reward for its return (and that the escapee is lulled by music) ends up singing to get him back to his cage. Im Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover is one of the songs he sings.\r
In the 1952 cartoon Operation Rabbit, Bugs Bunny sings Im looking over a three leaf clover that I overlooked be-three.