This week in 1948, the United States told nationals in North China to leave the area, Bernard Baruch told a Senate committee, “we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer,” in a Madison Square Garden speech, President Truman made a pitch to free Israel, and a singer/songwriter from Mart, Texas, had her only charted song as a recording artist.

According to Gene Sullivan, the song, “When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again,” was written out of necessity.

Sullivan commented, “The 1940 recording session that Wiley Walker and I did for Columbia records was a mista...

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