and even if it isn't ...
I had numerous candidates for the title of this column. Playing around is, after
all, a topic not restricted to the internet, and popular culture offers us many
"that reminds me of" possibilities. In the end, the popular, but quite
possibly forgotten, Tommy
Edwards song was a logical tie-in. It brings back memories, though it also
lets us know how faltering those memories can be. I needed a Google search in
order to find who sang the classic version of this song, discovering along the
way that numerous other versions were recorded that I've never heard. And the
history of the song itself is rather impressive. It turns out that the music was
written in 1912 by Charles Dawes who later became Vice President of the United
States (under Calvin Coolidge) and also received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1924.
(The words were added about forty years later.) I knew nothing about Dawes before
I found this rather extensively reported tidbit of information about him on the
web, and frankly, I know nothing more about him now. He is however, apparently
the only vice president to have ever written a hit song.
Go to: It's all in the game.