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    Which song has sold the most sheet music?

    Question #79970. Asked by zbeckabee. (May 06 07 9:23 PM)


    gtho4

    		A couple of sites reckon it's this, but none of them have any back-up with sales numbers, or quote sources:

    Yes We Have No Bananas
    (Frank Silver & Irving Cohn)

    There's a fruit store on our street,
    It's run by a Greek
    And he keeps good things to eat,
    But you should hear him speak
    When you ask him anything, never answers 'No'
    He just 'yes -ses' you to death
    And as he take your dough he tells you;

    Yes we have no bananas we have no bananas today
    We've broad beans like bunions cabbahges and honions
    And all kinds of fruit and say,
    We have an old fashioned tomahto a nice Jersey potahto
    But yes we have no bananas
    We have no bananas today

    http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiNOBANAN;ttNOBANAN.html

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    May 06 07, 10:31 PM

    Arpeggionist

    		I would think the Brahms Lullaby sold more than any. Brahms himself was afraid that the popularity of the song would give have too many people making their own arrangements and messing with his counterpoint, and with that in mind he wrote his publisher: "Why don't we also write a version in minor for naughty or sick children, which would get us more of the royalties?" (He never did write the minor version.)

    May 07 07, 3:05 AM

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