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The song has been named as one of the ''. Four lines of it are sung by Rodolfo in the first act of William Bolcom 's operatic adaptation of Arthur Miller 's play '' A View From The Bridge ''.

The song was written in 1915 by Johnny S. Black, whose greatest success would come with his song "Dardanella," which sold 5,000,000 copies in a recording by bandleader Ben Selvin in 1920 , and a further 2,000,000 copies of Sheet Music . Black died in 1936, six years before his second greatest success, "Paper Doll," swept the country. {Link without Title}


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