Sometimes on a beautiful summer’s evening a song comes to mind. Floating in the air tonight is “Just a Song at Twilight” performed by two very fine singers of my parents’ generation, Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae. The song was written in London in the 1880’s and published in America in 1884, the same year that Huck Finn first appeared in print. It w…
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