The third most-often sung song in America, right behind the Star Spangled Banner” and “Happy Birthday,” is also a song few people understand. Most of us don’t even know the song’s words. In Episode 56, Out Of My Mind podcast host Jay Douglas takes a trip to Tin Pan Alley for the story of how this song, the offspring of the vaudeville stage and cultural inexperience, came so popular and so misunderstood.
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Check out the blog story at The Out Of My Mind Blog. And be sure to read the Mind Doodle at the end of the post for a little-known story about what may be the first use of product placement.
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