Years ago, in Los Angeles, Ken & Bob on KABC radio had a BIG song contest for an L.A. theme song. Hundreds, maybe thousands of songs were sent in. Finally Ken & Bob picked one of the songs and proudly played it on their station. Then not too long after that, Randy Newman came out with "I Love L.A.!" It blew away all the songs Ken & Bob went thru and they sheepishly retired whatever song won the contest.
It is amazing that with maybe thousands of entries, just one good song by a professional songwriter (and singer) easily surpassed all the others.