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When did John McCrae start making music?
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John McCrae's first song “In Flanders Fields” released on December 8, 1915.
John McCrae was born November 1872, in Guelph, Ontario. He began writing poetry when a student at college, and had ambitions to join the military. At the age of fourteen he joined the Highfield Cadet Corps and enlisted in a militia field battery three years later. At sixteen he won a scholarship to the University of Toronto, where he studied... Read More
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