The day the Japs hit Pearl Harbor, a breezy, hand-crunching Texan named Red River Dave (Dave McEnery) wrote himself a song, The U.S.A. Is Coming P.D.Q. Next day he wrote one called Bums Over Hawaii. For months thereafter, while the fit was on him, he wrote a song a day. Sample title: Fight for Your Country, Country Boy. He has had more than 300 songs published, gets about $100 apiece for them. Red River Dave thinks they were all good.
Last week, on a bet, he set out to prove that he could "compose" 50 songs in one twelve-hour day. He turned...
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