[78-L] Slightly off the beaten pathŠ.

[David Lennick]

Early recordings of Yellow Rose are very racist, even Joyce Grenfell's. A 
yellow rose is a mulatto gal.

dl

On 7/3/2013 6:44 AM, Rjholtin wrote:
> Seems logical as Mitch was in the house of Columbia as well.  Stmbled onto my copy of his 78 of this just the other day so I am grateful for this discussion
>
> And Victor had a copy in the can recorded by Gene Autry in the early thirties which they could have reissued.
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> Did they?
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> Sent from my iPod - which explainz the bad typjng
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> On Jul 2, 2013, at 11:00 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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?
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>
> Yes, no.
>
> Maybe.
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865232,00.html
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>
> 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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> Read more:
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865232,00.html#ixzz2Xx3xxNEY
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> dl