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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 ...