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“The Last Rose of Summer” – Nina Simone (1964)

In his book, Yesterdays: Popular Song in America, Charles Hamm lists “The Last Rose of Summer” as among the Top Selling Foreign Songs in America in 1870. The lyrics are from a poem by Irish poet Thomas Moore written in … Continue reading

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