Thursday, July 29, 2010

Small town in the big world

By most lights, York is pretty small potatoes in a big world. But a century ago, one York resident made his mark in the world using York as his home base.


The J. A. Parks Music Co. distributed J. A. Parks' vocal arrangements and original compositions world-wide.

One of his early compositions -- The King of Glory -- is still in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's repertoire.

Some of J.A. Parks' songs were commercially recorded and distributed in the 'teens and 'twenties. I recently found an on-line music catalog that sells collections comprised of re-releases from 78 rpm recordings. The catalog includes a one-minute sample of J.A. Parks' arrangement of "Boys of the Old Brigade" that was recorded nearly a century ago.


The question for today is -- If J.A. Parks could make a living from York selling a product world-wide a century ago, why don't we promote York as a base of operations for today's entrepreneurs?

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