Here we are with episode 47 of The Way-back Music Machine! This journey is mostly in New York, but we get to go to South Africa for the first time.

Many songs are thought to be public domain, in other words, so old that no one really knows who wrote them. Often this assumption is quite wrong. "Danny Boy", "Liverpool Lou" and "Happy Birthday" are all copyrighted and have composers. So does the song we are talking about today, and we went all the way to South Africa and 1939 to learn more.

Then we visit New York for the tragic story of two brothers and a pair of blue suede shoes. Where does Elvis come into all of this? What happened? It is an interesting story.

Finally, a man who, by all rights, should not be dating super models, not only dates a super model (or two) but also marries one. More on the red-haired girl in the Chevrolet when we talk about this story in New York City.

All this, plus charts, chat, bells, and our Memphis to Merseyside segment on  this week's road trip with The Way-Back Music Machine.

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