Oh! I get it, finally. Sugar Magnolia--Dead. Grateful Dead. Duh. Sometimes I'm so slow. When I first saw it, I was going to fuss, because Sugar Magnolia is one of my favorites.

But as far as songs being "dead", I don't really think so. I think they're just waiting to be heard by a new audience. Not everybody will like the same thing, obviously. We may despise a song, and someone else will think it's wonderful. Take Sonny's Dream, for example. I hate it. Other folks love it. Maybe we're both right.

But the other night, I sang an old music hall song from around the turn of the century, that I'd found on an old album. Nobody had heard it before, and they were beside themselves laughing.