Posting mp3 file on blog page (iweb)

Hello,
Hopefully, someone can help me. I have posted a mp3 file on my blog. It plays fine on iweb, but once published, does not play if viewed from the Internet. Can someone help? Thanks!

I appreciate the input, but I'm not sure it explains why that one link does not work. When I do finally publish the site (for real) on the internet, the tunes will be reduced to smaller sound clips, and not the whole song. The full-song version will be burned to disc, and handed out to industry folks at a trade show. It will take the place of a standard press kit. Right now, I'm just using this to show my clients, and get the thing working right. None of us can figure out why that one song won't play. But thanks so much for taking the time to look at it.

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