Coming even later to this chat..... My father, 87, who has dementia, has a magnolia tree in his garden that cost 2s 6d, 60 years ago from Woolworths. He always talks about it in every phone call and visit I make, so hundreds of times, about what it looks like, buds on it etc. Today he suddenly burst into song... About a Magnolia GROVE... He mentioned lindy Lou too. So I googled it and here I am... Does anyone know a version with the word grove in it?. Despite his memory problems he thought it was from the southern US. I will take some YouTube recordings to him this week. I am just amazed this came bouncing up thru his memory. I suspect it was Paul Robeson or Bert Ives. My father grew up in a mining town in Lancashire and they might have had a wireless at some point, but most likely he saw it at the pictures (cinema), as they may not have afforded a wireless.
I am stunned at the power of music.