Show THE OLD prospector SAYS dear editor variety a magazine of the enter tain hamment ment world has picked the fol owing lowing songs as being the most pop ular of the past half century on the basis asis of catch mess or sales figures in the shade of the old apple three school days casey jones down by the old mill stream let me call you sweetheart alexander s rag time band I 1 want a girl waiting for the robert E lee st louis blues over there and god bless america most of these songs come out be fore 1920 so maybe I 1 am ain t so pre in thinking the songs of my boyhood and youth are a whole lots prettier than later popular songs specially such stuff as pistol pack in mama and sixteen tons it surprises and sorta saddens me that variety t include dear old girl genevieve and was you there when I 1 rode that old gray mule yours truly THE OLD prospector PROSPECT 04 |