While my first love is old-time country music, I have a fondness for Hit Parade tunes from the 40's and 50's, especially Swinging on a Star, Lavender Blue, and Mona Lisa, the last of which strikes me as a totally obsurd song, but I love it. When I'm alone at work, I find myself putting on my best crooning voice and singing these, along with a lot of show tunes. I'd never perform those in public, mostly because they don't go well with a clawhammer banjo, and because I'd probably drive my audience away. Hit Parade tunes just don't have the audience they deserve.