> On the flip side of Sam's Song, you'll find a simple melody that goes like this:
> "Won't you play a simple melody,
> Like my mother sang to me?
> One with good old fashioned harmony.
> Play a simple melody."
> It goes on about classical and rag etc. I quoted that from memory, so it may not be absolutely correct. The record hit the charts in the 1950's.
> Bing and son Gary are both dead now. Gary was Officer Wells on "Adam 12." Good singer, great comic actor.
> Howard

When you say "on the flip side," do you mean on the other side of a vinyl record? I was listening to one of them newfangled compact disk contraptions. "Bing Crosby's Golden Records." It has all of his songs that went gold. Sam's Song is one of them, and the "Simple Melody" song you mentioned is on it too...just before Sam's Song if memory serves. Some of my other favorites from that collection:

"Pistol Packin' Mama"
"Would You Like to Swing on a Star?"
"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
"South America"
"MacNamara's Band"

Gri"lay that pistol down, babe, lay that pistol down..."shny