If you’ve ever tried to list all the U.S. states from memory, you know how hard it is. Unless you still have the “Fifty Nifty United States” song from elementary school memorized, you probably can’t ...

In 1961, a songwriter named Ray Charles -- not the famous Ray Charles, a different Ray Charles -- wrote a kids' novelty song called "Fifty Nifty United States" for the weekly variety show Perry Como's ...