You know the song “All in the Game”? (“Many a tear has to fall/But it’s all in the game….”)
It’s been covered by everybody, from Jimmy Witherspoon to Van Morrison to Roland Kirk.
Turns out it was written by this guy:
Charles G. Dawes, vice-president under Calvin Coolidge and recipient of the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize.
That is to say, he wrote the melody in 1911. Forty years later somebody named Carl Sigman came along and added lyrics. In 1958 Tommy Edwards took it to #1….
“Shine Little Glow Worm” has a similar history. But that’s for another time —
