It might be an up-beat pop tune from the sixties, or a country music song — or both. It’s an old-fashioned love song. Listen to some for me.

Tommy Edwards’ most successful record topped the Hot 100 in 1958. It was a re-recording of a 1951 song, and it also has the distinction of being the only number one pop hit to have been written by a former Vice-President of the United States.