A week or so ago, I got yet another app for my IPad and IPhone, an internet radio app called Radio Garden. It’s a fun app. You can explore a map of the world, and find radio stations by location. You can also search by name and, to a certain extent, genre.
Anyway, I chanced upon a radio station from London, The UK 1940s Radio Station, which I put on my favorite list, so I can listen to it when my wife’s not around, as she is not a fan of the old time stuff. Anyway, here I am listening to a radio station from London and what do I hear? Judy Garland and Bing Crosby teaming up to sing Connecticut (is the State for Me), a song about our fair state! And I had to go to England to hear it.
I broke a rule I stuck to when this was a regular feature, as I avoided YouTube “videos” that consisted of a song and a picture, but I made an exception for this song for the obvious reason that there is no video for a song this old. Near as I can gather it was written by Hugh Martin, the guy who wrote Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas for some sort of Yale related event.
DuckDuckGo tells me that the official state song of Connecticut is Yankee Doodle, which never mentions the state of Connecticut. I seem to recall that Tom Meskill tried to get a song called The Hills of My Connecticut named the state song. It doesn’t hold a candle to Connecticut, as you can hear here, but then, The Yankee Nutmeggers are not Judy Garland and Bing Crosby. Nothing against Yankee Doodle, but it seems to me that Connecticut does a better job promoting our fair state.
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