BBeM: Novelty Records Item

Novelty Records

The Ballad of Davy Crockett
by Fess Parker (1954)

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Posted by Duff at 11:07 pm (PST) on Wed November 24, 2021
Would you believe that Louis Armstrong recorded a version of this in 1968? It's true!
Posted by Brian Johnson at 9:22 pm (PDT) on Thu October 5, 2017
The whole Davy Crockett phenomenon was so iconic when my brother and I were growing up that when I was called upon to produce a song for my brother's 50th birthday bash many years later, I wrote multitudinous verses about his life to the rhythm of the theme song ("Born in a a hospital in Pasa-Dee, entrepreneurial when he was only 3", etc). It worked perfectly.
Posted by rjg45 at 9:41 am (PDT) on Mon July 8, 2013
I was nine years old when this record came out--all the kids in my neighborhood were soon wearing coonskin caps...

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