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OK, but I'll concede it does SOMETHING pretty wild. Just not necessarily something good for recommendations.

Because I tried another song: "Sam Sweeney - The King of Prussia's March", and the second recommendation was "Polsk Nr. 48" by Rasmus Storm.

The wild thing? Well, first of all, Rasmus Storm isn't strictly speaking the artist. He was the composer. He was a 17th century Danish fiddler, who - rarely for his time and social standing - knew music notation, and wrote down his tunes in a book.

The crazy thing is that in that same book, "Murchy nr. 14" is the tune better known in England as "The King of Prussia's March"!

The odds of that happening by chance has to be absolutely tiny. "Obscure" doesn't even begin to describe it when it comes to Rasmus Storm's notebook.



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