At the Bamboo Gardens they swung it. At the Shoreham Hotel they waltzed it. The U. S. Marine Band, in Potomac Park, played it straight: Dee deedle dee dum dum, dum dum, dum dum. . . . Dee deedle dee ...
When I was a younger man, children sat by the phonographic device and listened to pretty much whatever their parents put on the turntable. Mozart or Montovani. Bach or the Beatles. Herb Albert or the ...