[78-L] Second Fiddle To Nobody (Jean Shepard)

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

Perhaps, the sheet music, not the record, sold 1M ...

BC
Le 20 mai 11, à 21:20, Peter Schow a écrit :

> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:44:16PM -0400, Michael Biel wrote:
>> Oh come on, Cary.  A million copies of a record in 1935?  And a 
>> country
>> record at that.  I know sales were picking up since the low point in
>> 1933, but what reliable contemporary sources do you have that can 
>> claim
>> this?
>
> According to an chapter by Robert Oermann and Mary Bufwack [1], Patsy
> Montana attributed the success of this song to:
>
>  - emerging enthusiasm for Gene Autry films that drove cowboy 
> popularity
>  - the song's polka rhythm which made it popular with northern USA
>    ethnic audiences
>  - its dance spirit, which appealed to a country coming off Prohibition
>    the year before.
>
> Bufwack and Oermann claim this was a 1M seller in both this story and
> their "Finding Her Voice" book (2003) but offer no citation or 
> reference.
>
> [1] Patsty Montana and the Development of the Cowgirl Image, Oermann 
> and
>     Bufwack in "The Country Reader:  Twenty Five Years of the Journal
>     of Country Music".  1996.
>
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