Frank Nieman of Pleasant Hill, Calif., thought he remembered hearing the 1961 Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer tune "Moon River" on a 1940s radio show in Cincinnati and asked us to check into it. Our research revealed that Cincinnati's WLW had a poetry-reading program called "Moon River" back then, but its theme song started with, "Moon River, a lazy stream of dreams," and had a completely different melody.

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