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1995 Will McLean Song Contest Winner and 2nd and 3rd place finishers

Here is the winner, 2nd and 3rd place finishers of the 1995 Will McLean Best New Florida Song Contest

Stan Geberer
1st place winner Stan Geberer

Winner Stan Geberer “One More Florida Song”

(Audio unavailable but see lyrics below)

ONE MORE FLORIDA SONG By Stan Geberer

Orange blossoms in the spring, Made many singers sing
Everglades in the fall, Summer rains made the sawgrass tall

Who’s gonna sing about the Florida Sand, When all those singers no longer can

Who’s gonna write one more Florida Song, One where everybody wants to sing along…oh…

And if those singers were still here, Maybe they’d sing about the small key deer
Or sing about Florida’s whispy sky, In the winter with the clouds so high

Who’s gonna write one more Florida song, Who’s gonna write one more Florida song

Or maybe they’d sing time is so short, How to save God’s earth you got to go to court
And how it seems we can hardly win, But their songs made us try again and again

Who’s gonna write one more Florida song, One where everybody wants to sing along

Now the sky is a wintery blue, Over the pines and the cypress too
And a new song in the air so still, Sing it for ‘em if you will

Lets sing about the Florida sand, Lets sing about it while we can
Lets sing one more Florida song, Now everybody sing along

Lets sing one more Florida song, One more Florida song

BradBoone
Brad Boone

2nd place Brad Boone “State of Harmony”

Jon and his mom Mem
Jon and Mem Semmes

3rd place Mem Semmes “My Dunnellon” (performed here by her son Jon Semmes)

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1993 Will McLean Song Contest Winner and Finishers

Here are the winner, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers of the 1993 Will McLean Best New Florida Song Contest

Boomslang
1st place winner Boomslang

Winner Boomslang “Since You Can Fit New Jersey Into The Everglades, This Year Looks Like They’re Going To Try”

Here’s a sampling of his Peters Road Swamp Blues Band performance at the Florida Folk Festival in 2008

Ron Litschauer 2
2nd place Ron Litschauer

2nd place “Ballad of Hamilton Disston” Ron Litschauer

3rd place (tie) The Bridge of Lions

3rd place (tie) The Spirit of Florida

3rd place (tie) Florida Calling

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1992 Will McLean Song Contest Winner and Finishers

In 1992 Singer Songwriter Ken Skeens won first, second and third place in the first Will McLean Best New Florida Song Contest

Ken Skeens
Winner Ken Skeens

Winner- Ken Skeens “Empty Chair”

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2nd place Ken Skeens

2nd Place  Ken Skeens “Paw Prints In The Sand”

Margaret Longhill and Ken Skeens
Margaret Longhill presenting Ken Skeens his awards

3rd Place  Ken Skeens “This Is My Florida”

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