"Highlanders, Fix Bayonets!", (1915), Geoffrey O’Hara, (1882-1966), was born on February 2, 1882, in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. He began to play piano as a child and, at age 12, he was a singer and organist in an Anglican church in Chatham. He also toured the Lyceum and Chautauqua vaudeville circuits as a singer, lecturer and song leader. In 1913, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior appointed O’Hara instructor of native music. In this capacity, he gathered and recorded songs of Navajo and other native tribes. During World War II, he visited military camps, teaching singing and boosting morale. In 1945, O’Hara was elected president of the Composers-Authors Guild. He wrote 12 operettas and approximately 500 hymns, patriotic tunes and popular songs. His most famous song is K-K-K-Katy. O’Hara died on January 31, 1966, in St. Petersburg, Florida. (HEBM online.) https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-12224/?