Here is a genuinely happy story that turns sad, and ends in an unmarked grave at NYC potters field nearby in The Bronx.

Dave "Baby" Cortez was the musician behind "The Happy Organ," The 1959 song became the first instrumental to top the Billboard Hot 100. Dave died quietly at his home in The Bronx on May 31, 2022, at age 83. Nobody noticed CC died a pauper until three years later.

He was born David Cortez Clowney in Detroit in 1938, where he'd worked as a doo-wop pianist before literally stumbling into and then plying "The Happy Organ" almost by accident.

A "reverse Ellis Island" describes the historical phenomenon of large-scale

Is America experiencing a documented mass political exodus, which states are they leaving and where are they going?

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I never expected there would be days and action like these where the federal government is involved in silencing itself.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced",

Mark Twain wrote iconic American novels, short stories, and travelogues. His most famous books include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and his breakout short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865).

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The song's genius is that dread-through-repetition structure, each verse compounds the last, building toward total human obsolescence by the finale.