Tommie Wright

March 21, 1919 (age 94)

Wright was a native of Indianapolis, Indiana and had a master"s degree from Indiana University. He worked for many years as a pianist on television shows, providing background music for radio soap operas and composing jingles for radio advertising. He was hired to play piano and went on to teach music as a professor at Florida State University from 1949 to 2008. In August 2012, FSU presented Wright with an honorary doctorate, Wright wrote the song with Doug Alley (a student at the school) in 1950. Doug Alley original wrote the song as a poem and Wright added music to lieutenant He conducte the song for the first time at a game in 2008 Wright was married for 30 years to Rosalinda, head of the foreign languages department at Tallahassee Community College with whom he had 5 daughters. He died in Tallahassee Memorial Hospital on May 8, 2014.

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Wright was a native of Indianapolis, Indiana and had a master"s degree from Indiana University. He worked for many years as a pianist on television shows, providing background music for radio soap operas and composing jingles for radio advertising. He was hired to play piano and went on to teach music as a professor at Florida State University from 1949 to 2008.

In August 2012, FSU presented Wright with an honorary doctorate,

Wright wrote the song with Doug Alley (a student at the school) in 1950.

Doug Alley original wrote the song as a poem and Wright added music to lieutenant He conducte the song for the first time at a game in 2008

Wright was married for 30 years to Rosalinda, head of the foreign languages department at Tallahassee Community College with whom he had 5 daughters.

He died in Tallahassee Memorial Hospital on May 8, 2014.

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