In a song from Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man", this many trombones "led the big parade"
Willson Meredith The Music 
Man Seventy Six Trombones Seventy six trombones led the big parade, With a... [DOC] [TLE] Meredith Willson | The Official Masterworks Broadway Site [PAR] Many of his individual songs have become standards, performed by the likes of ... 
At the top of the list are Trouble, Till There Was You, 76 Trombones, and It's 
... Halfway through the first Broadway run of The Music Man, Willson and his ... 
and Shirley Jones were present, and Willson led the Big Parade through the town
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