- I was with Mclntyre & Heath's Minstrels as the bandmaster in 1886, and we were trouping through Louisiana. . . . On the train we passed a village called Old Town and there was a Negro's cabin burning. Mac turned to me and said: 'There'll be a hot time in Old Town tonight.' It had the ring a good title ought to have and I jotted it down on the top of an envelope upon which I was scribbling the notes of a new march I was composing for our parade in New Orleans. The march became the song and the title was Mac's. - From a TIME Magazine interview
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