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  • Sam's Song

    - 25 Sep 2018
    Joe "Fingers" Carr (Lou Bush) and the Carr Hops were first to record "Sam's Song" (Jack Elliott - Lew Quadling) in 1950 and peaked at number seven on Billboard. When Joe divorced actress Janet Blair he married singer Margaret Whiting. Bing Crosby and

  • Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby)

    - 25 Sep 2018
    Star of the stage, singer and songwriter Chauncey Olcott was first to record "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby)" (James Royce Shannon) in 1913. It was composed for the musical "Shameen Dhu (Black-haired Jimmy) and recorded before the play's