Sometimes a popular American song doesn’t originate in America. That’s the case with this week’s selection, which was widely recorded in the United States, both in instrumental and vocal versions and by more musicians than you can count. Certainly over one thousand commercial recordings of the song were made, and I’ve heard that it is the eighth-most-…
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