He discovered it was a Sidney Bechet tune, recorded in 1952.
In 1974 she was part of a salute to Louis Armstrong at Carnegie Hall, singing "St . Louis Blues" a tune recorded by both Armstrong and Bessie Smith.
At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, for instance, Royal Philips Electronics demonstrated a prototype of an Internet radio that was not only capable of naming the band Pearl Jam as its music streamed past but also distinguishing a version of a tune that it played at a concert in Verona, Italy, from the same tune recorded in Milan.
One was Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn (written by the Yiddish theatre composer Sholom Secunda, performed by the Andrews Sisters in 1937 and covered by Benny Goodman) and the other was Freilach in Swing (And the Angels Sing), a traditional klezmer tune recorded by Benny Goodman's trumpeter Ziggy Elman in 1939.
The car also starts playing a tune recorded by Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken from the US comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live, where he plays cowbells poking fun at the Blue Öyster Cult's (Don't Fear) The Reaper; the same sketch that spawned the US pop culture catchphrase "more cowbell".
Wagner, who says he can "kind of carry a tune," recorded the music himself.
The upbeat tune, recorded in English and intended for a Western audience, features some dubious rhymes.
The original "Please Mr. Kennedy" (a slower, doo-wop Motown tune recorded by Mickey Woods) was a plea to avoid the Vietnam draft.
As The Pete Best Four, and later as The Pete Best Combo (a quintet), they toured the US with a combination of 1950s songs and original tunes, recording for small labels, but had little success.
Five tunes recorded in 2002 with the guitarist John Doyle show Mr. Peoples still has his bite.
