Joe Hammel plays the 'Standards' on his piano

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Nevada City resident Joe Hammel says he should have been born in another era — during the period from 1910 to 1960, when musicians wrote and recorded what have become the great American standards. Hammel gets dreamy-eyed when he ponders the top-three most-recorded songs from that era: "St. Louis Blues," 1914, by WC Handy; "Stardust," 1927, by Hoagie Carmichael; and "Body and Soul," 1930, by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and Johnny Green. See the complete article at: www.theunion.com

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berlin, porter, gershwin, solo

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