Mummers gearing up for New Year's Day parade in Philadelphia 03:00 "It looks like it just takes hours and hours just to do it," Stephanie Gram, an audience member, said.

Most people probably have never heard the name James A. Bland. But if you live in Philadelphia, you’ve heard at least one of his songs. “Oh, Dem Golden Slippers” — a tune Bland wrote in 1879 — is the ...