I was just in a used book store that had a book of Stephen Foster songs for sale. (I didn't buy it.) In the introduction, the editor mentioned that in the 1940's, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair was all over the radio in many forms - ballad, instrumental, fox trot, big band.

There was some kind of conflict going on over copyrights, and since Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair was public domain, they went wild playing it.

thosp, there is a good chance that you could find that very book in your library. I've seen it before.