Saturday, March 3, 2007
Nice fact
How cool is it that Teddy Roosevelt's vice president (yes, THAT Teddy Roosevelt), Charles Dawes, wrote the lyrics to It's All in the Game, a #1 song that's been covered and sung by artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Cliff Richards, Andy Williams, Barry Manilow, and many others. (HT Dadvocate)
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| posted by jau at 1:42 AM
jau — at 1:08 PM, March 04, 2007:
— at 5:59 PM, March 04, 2007:
| posted by jau at 1:42 AM
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jau — at 1:08 PM, March 04, 2007:
Unfortunately, one doesn't think of vice presidents at all, except on election day. Thanks for this!
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— at 5:59 PM, March 04, 2007:
Actually, there's quite a bit wrong with that bit.
1) Dawes was actually Calvin Coolidge's Vice President. (Coolidge had replaced Warren G. Harding, who died in office in 1923; Coolidge ran for reelection in 1924 and picked Dawes as his running mate.) The two, however, did not get along.
2) Dawes wrote the melody of the song in 1912; he titled it simply "Melody in A Major." Carl Sigman put words to it in 1951 (the same year Dawes died). Tommy Edwards, who got the biggest hit out of it, cut it twice: a fairly conventional pop record in '51, a R&B smash in '58.
2a) Just for the heck of it: Dawes shared the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his plan for World War I reparations from Germany, a plan which proved to be seriously buggy.
1) Dawes was actually Calvin Coolidge's Vice President. (Coolidge had replaced Warren G. Harding, who died in office in 1923; Coolidge ran for reelection in 1924 and picked Dawes as his running mate.) The two, however, did not get along.
2) Dawes wrote the melody of the song in 1912; he titled it simply "Melody in A Major." Carl Sigman put words to it in 1951 (the same year Dawes died). Tommy Edwards, who got the biggest hit out of it, cut it twice: a fairly conventional pop record in '51, a R&B smash in '58.
2a) Just for the heck of it: Dawes shared the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his plan for World War I reparations from Germany, a plan which proved to be seriously buggy.
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