Everyone knows the song “Tennessee Waltz.” In the past 75 years, it’s been recorded more than 500 times and has sold around 14 million records. In 1965, it became the official Tennessee state song.

The criminal irony of a Tennessee state song elected in 2023 baffles even the original songwriter, who's convinced no one ...

Later, Elvis crooned “The Tennessee Waltz”; Sinatra, “The Christmas Waltz.” Martin Scorsese’s 1976 documentary of the Band’s last concert, “The Last Waltz,” was hardly the last waltz.

Laufey performed a simple acoustic cover of "The Tennessee Waltz," a song popularized in Patti Page's 1950 recording. Laufey sang: "I was dancing with my darling to the Tennessee Waltz / When an ...