Canadian Mark Steyn celebrates Dominion Day with some thoughts about what makes a great song great:

That’s the very definition of songwriting: not words, not notes, not a lyric, not a melody, but the two so inextricably linked that they’re indivisible. Was the tune written to accommodate the lines or vice-versa? I asked Burton Lane and he couldn’t recall. “All I remember is that I thought it was a terrific idea for a song,” he said, “and we were so enthusiastic about it we wrote it very quickly, and I knew we’d got it right. Sometimes that happens.”