It was about as likely as Henry Kissinger's warbling On Top of Old Smoky with choral accompaniment by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. Nonetheless, for the fourth week in a row, Walter Scheel, West Germany's Foreign Minister and the leading contender for the presidency in May's elections, was on top of Europe's hit parade, with a song so old and square it sounded refreshingly different to a generation weaned on rock 'n' roll. Within little more than a month, a single of Scheel singing a square folk song called Hoch auf dem gelben Wagen (High Up on the Yellow Wagon) has...
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