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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.



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