There are 22 in all since another watermelon song, Mongo Santamaria’s “Watermelon Man” — composed by jazz legend Herbie Hancock — got this fruit-stand started in 1963. The dominant fruit ...

a song: He listened acutely to the cobblestone back alleys of Chicago: He learned: The Watermelon Man became a sound, a song: Listening for sounds reminds me of sounds heard and sound seen ...

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The latter had the track ‘The song goes on’, composed by Larry ... His workshop at the NCPA was packed, and the rendition of ‘Watermelon Man’ by 10-year-old Ayaan Deshpande earned a ...