This celebrity goo was created by player Steve West.

publication date: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 (part of Spring 2019)

category: Music

clue: Under a pen name, he composed the song whistled by a bunch of POW bridge builders.

explanation: F. J. Ricketts, as Kenneth Alford, composed The Colonel Bogey March, famously whistled in The Bridge Over the River Kwai. more…

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Matthew Preston, Erik Bates, Aaron Shurtleff, Scott Hardie, and Stan Iwanchuk


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