[78-L] Slightly off the beaten pathŠ.

[David Lennick]

On 7/2/2013 11:28 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> On 7/2/2013 3:16 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> 1954 for The Confederacy, according to this:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Records-The-Confederacy-1861-1865/dp/B002Y6AYFY
>>
>> "Yellow Rose of Texas" became popular as a result of this album, no?
>>
>>
> Yes, no.
>
Maybe.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865232,00.html


Radio: The Yellow Rose of Ford
Monday, Sept. 19, 1955
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The call letters of radio station WGMS stand for Washington's Good Music 
Station. Two years ago, pursuing its cultural aims, WGMS presented a concert by 
the National Gallery Orchestra, featuring The Confederacy, a medley of Southern 
songs prepared and conducted by Richard Bales. When Columbia Records brought 
out an album of the songs last fall, WGMS proudly broadcast the premiere of the 
long-playing disk.

This summer, in Manhattan, bearded Mitch Miller, Columbia's pop record genie, 
was talked into listening to one of The Confederacy's songs, The Yellow Rose of 
Texas. He agreed that there was a possible hit in its bouncy rhythms,...
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