Spring 2001

Name That Tune

by James Morris

What good is a song Or they grow to Wliitmanescpe width: If the words just don't belong? And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper ay Livingston and Ray Evans didn't get hearin' him tell about horse race gamblin' around to asking that question in a song (Meredith Willson) "To Each His Own") until 1946, but the sentiment was hardly new then, and it hasn't Or they find distinctive cadences in be- aged a day since. The common wisdom is that tween: words and music are inseparable, a...

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