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What’s in a Song: Blue Moon
[This is the first in a series of every-now-and-then posts about popular songs with long lives.] Some great songs go through subtle changes over time: the original lyrics are updated to correspond to...
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What’s in a Song: I Get Along Without You Very Well (Part 1)
[Another in an occasional series on popular songs with appeal across the generations. This post will be broken into two parts; Part 2, about this song's composition, appears tomorrow [edit to add:] or...
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What’s in a Song: I Get Along Without You Very Well (Part 2)
[This is another in an occasional series on popular songs with long histories. Part 1 -- on the song itself as finally recorded by numerous artists -- appeared on Tuesday.] Hoagy Carmichael published...
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What’s in a Song: Simple Gifts (1)
The great tangled rope of popular music (American and otherwise) includes so many disparate strands that to speak of it as a single “thing” invites ridicule: show tunes and jazz, bluegrass and ragtime,...
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What’s In a Song: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (1)
[One of a continuing series of posts on American popular songs with long histories. As is usually the case, this one on the history of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" will be was followed in a couple days by...
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