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Music for a Day When Memories and Hopes Meet at Midnight

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THIS IS AMERICA: I'm Steve Ember, and today we bring you music for the New Year. (MUSIC) T.J. MacDonald, left, and Stacey Fox, both of Syracuse, New York, welcoming 2008 in Times Square in New York City In the United States and other countries, this old Scottish song, "Auld Lang Syne" is played when a new year begins.

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