Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Paul Popa is back, and we have done a classic song by Irving Berlin: A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody. It was written in 1919 for the Ziegfield Follies, and it would come on when the chorus girls came out strutting and dancing. But, it went on to become the theme song for the Miss America Beauty Pageant, all the way until 1955. That's when they replaced it with the current theme song. But, in my humble opinion, that song isn't nearly as good as Berlin's. His song is really classy. In fact, at the historic Experiment in Modern Music Concert in New York City in 1924 which featured Paul Whiteman's Jazz Band, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was introduced to the world, and then it was followed by a semi-symphonic version of A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H1iL2PoBEg&feature=youtu.be