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For some reason the sea shanty reminded me of this, although the only tenuous connection with the sea is that the "jolly rutterkin" (referring to drunken Dutch sailors) would have arrived by boat. Somewhere I still have the LP this comes from. About as subtle as a brick on the head but great fun to sing.

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Joy to the World/Three Dog Night was #1 :D

I was pretty much completely into classical by then and in my 2nd year of my music degree but there are some memories and names in that list that I remember very well. (Also the year my dad died of heart attack at the office at 59 but that's a different kind of memory.)

"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" I don't remember at all but I just had to look it up:

..."I was working on several songs, including a tune about traveling around the country with this girl, and I was trying to rhyme 'you and me.' Now 'me and you' would have been easier, but I was trying to do it with proper grammar. I couldn’t find anything to rhyme that fit what I wanted to say in the song. Finally, after I got back home to Florida, I decided to turn the phrase around to 'me and you.' I was thinking about it, sitting in a room that had a big sliding glass door overlooking the back yard. My big German Shepherd dog: Boo, came running around the corner and looked in at me. I said: 'Well, now, that’s kinda freaky. How about putting 'a dog named Boo’ into the song?”...

Amazing Grace w. Judy Collins was only #80 but it's always on a list of favs. somewhere. One version I have is a "call and response" arrangelent by The Isaacs:

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