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Air on a G string Hamlet cigar advert music went into charts I believe in the s does anyone know more details?

"Air on the G String" became popular as background music for cigar store advertisements following a 1955 radio advertisement for Hamlet Cigars which used an arrangement by the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet.[ This version went to #32 on US Billboard chart as an instrumental by "Norman Luboff Choir and Chorus" before going on to reach #62 as a vocal and to sell five million copies

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