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Thread #97435   Message #3714049
Posted By: GUEST,Joseph Scott
02-Jun-15 - 03:37 PM
Thread Name: Folk Songs That Hit the Charts as Pop Songs
Subject: RE: Folk Songs That Hit the Charts as Pop Songs
"for 'Teddy Bear' see e.g. Newman White's 1928 book"

And also "Be My Kid Blues" by Elizabeth Johnson, but the Newman White version is closer to the song Leiber and Stoller provided to Elvis. (Perhaps Leiber had read Newman White.)