[78-L] Slightly off the beaten pathŠ.

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 7/2/2013 11:00 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> 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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> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865232,00.html#ixzz2Xx3xxNEY
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WIKI says that this Miller tune knocked "Rock Around The Clock" off the 
charts. But wasn't it regionally popular before this time?
Only us oldies remember just how popular Mitch Miller was back then.

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