Most people would recognize this as the opening theme to TV’s original “Match Game” hosted by Gene Rayburn. Billy Vaughn had a September 1962 hit with his version of an instrumental from German bandleader Bert Kaempfert. (In Hamburg, Bert was the first to record the Beatles.) There are numerous similarities to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” a.k.a. “Wimoweh.” That piccolo and that trumpet solo, though...
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