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"Oh, I wear Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time . . ." George Frazier wrote the lyrics and Count Basie recorded it, and it wasn't a bad tune. But according to Dorothy Kilgallen, King Features Broadway columnist, Harvard University didn't like "Harvard Blues."
"The college objected to the song mainly because the lead sheet carried a reproduction of the seal of Harvard University," she wrote recently. "Therefore, they wrote a number of indignant letters to the publishers requesting that all existing copies of the song be called in and no new ones released until the insignia had been removed."
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