While the music would have survived Cohan anyway (true art usually outlives the artist), the fact that Yankee Doodle Dandy has existed for the past 82 years and is deemed such a classic ...
Then came a song called Come On! Yankee Doodle! When it was over, the 1,100 youngsters went wild. Author of the song was not a music student but an art student: pert, 16-year-old Lynne Rogers ...