[luvie]

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Mills Brothers~Let Me Call You Sweetheart

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[Publius]

This song played a part in the funeral of the mother of a friend of mine. In her final years at a retirement village she had been a member of a ladies chorus who started each rehearsal with "Let Me Call You Sweetheart."

The family wanted this sung at her funeral, but the pastor of the Catholic parish nixed it because it wasn't "liturgical." One of the three sons of the deceased was a priest at a monastery. He spoke to his abbot, who apparently had a rank equivalent to a bishop. The abbot called the bishop, who called the pastor, who changed his mind on the spot. The monastery had a choir, and at the funeral, the choir sang "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" in eight-part harmony when her coffin was brought in. My friends' wife said there wasn't a dry eye in the church.