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Originally Posted by PaloAltoCougar
One other note, while I was on my mission a BYU Study Abroad group came through and sang Edelweiss, expecting the Salzburg branch to be deeply moved by the touching performance. Didn't happen, mainly because the song was written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The Austrians had never heard the song before the movie came out, and they had long grown tired of Americans asking them to sing it.
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Are you serious, it was written for the movie? That is freaking hilarious. I always assumed it was the most popular song in all of Austria.