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Q Can you help with the words to the Chevrolet song Dinah Shore used to sing on her TV show? —Sherman Benson. Kenyon. Minn. Shore, who died of ovarian cancer in 1994, helped Chevrolet become the best-selling car in America during the years she hosted The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, from 1956 to 1963, literally singing the car company's praises in the TV' show's theme song: "See the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet / America's the greatest land of all / So make a date today to see the U.S.A. / And see it in your Chevrolet!" JUST RELEASED... Alan Jackson teams with Alison Krauss Alan Jackson’s 16th album, Like Red on a Rose, is his first produced by bluegrass icon Alison Krauss. “I real ly have to give her credit for this whole concept and sound,” he says. The 13- song collection. Jackson says, is "an album that you put on in the evening when you and your spouse are having a glass of wine and you can just sit back and listen.” I* Cover photo by Media Bakery ■ What is your favorite Easter memory? 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