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Harmonicas are ... hooty, wheezy, twangy and tooty.

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| November 01, 1995 | Chelminski, Rudolph | COPYRIGHT 1995 Smithsonian Institution. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

They're from the Old Country, but there's nothing better for American music, from blues to honky-tonk--and the fans are blown away

It's all the fault of "Peg o' My Heart."

It must have been around 1947 or 48 when I first heard this amazing sound coming out of our family's old radio. I heard it again and again, too, because that particular recording of "Peg o' My Heart" was destined to become, with some 20 million sold, the second-most-popular 78 rpm single ever produced in America, exceeded only by Bing Crosby's infuriatingly addictive "White Christmas."

The guilty parties were called the Harmonicats, I soon learned, and they were a trio--just three ...

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