"Oh sweet Lorraine"
'She gave me 75 years of her life': The tone- deaf 96-year-old who entered heartbreaking song he wrote for his late wife into contest... and got it made into a real record
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A 96-year-old Illinois man wrote a song about his wife of 75 years and when he sent the heart-wrenching ode into a singer-songwriter contest, they decided to produce it for him.
When Fred Stobaugh talks about his wife Lorraine now, it’s hard for him to hold back tears after the life they led together he says was ‘like a dream.’
After she died, he was sitting alone in the Peoria home they once shared and for the first time in his life he decided to write a song.
‘It just fit her,’ Stobaugh said.
After penning ‘Oh Sweet Lorraine,’ he saw an ad in the local paper for a singer-songwriter contest. Though he was neither of those things, he decided to send in the ballad.
‘I’ll just send a letter,’ he remembered thinking, though the contest rules asked for a video of the songwriter entrants actually performing their song. ‘Send it all in. Never thinking I’d get an answer or nothing.’
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