After the first LP record was so well-received, the SUI School of Music recorded and released a second album. Side One featured eleven marches from the SUI University Band, including On Iowa, The Iowa Fight Song, Roll Along, Iowa, Meredith Willson’s 76 Trombones, and Karl King’s Hawkeye Glory. Side Two belonged to The Old Gold Singers. Formed in 1957, this show choir was hugely popular around campus for over 50 years.
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Happen to own a copy of that LP which I played over and over as a child.