“Oh sweet Lorraine, I wish we could do all the good times over again,” the song goes.
Fred Stobaugh, 96, remembered laying eyes on the prettiest girl he ever saw: It was 1938, and she was a car hop named Lorraine at an A&W Rootbeer stand in East Peoria, Ill.
Two years later, she was his wife. They remained together until Lorraine’s death this year.
“She gave me 75 years of her life,” Stobaugh said in an online documentary.
It was this love story that transformed Stobaugh – not a musician by any means – into a chart-topping songwriter and Internet star.
Soon after Lorraine died, Green Shoe Studio, an Illinois-based music studio, held an online contest for singer-songwriters. Studio employees were sorting through uploaded videos when they received a …….
