Dan Fogelberg’s Hit Song Uses a Famous Tchaikovsky Melody

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The successful nostalgic 1980 single, Same Old Lang Syne, about his chance encounter with his ex-girlfriend, Jill Anderson, makes use of a very popular melody written in 1880 by the Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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