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...enjoyed your Aug. 1 article on "King Davy and Friends," although I would be happy if I never heard of Davy again. With three boys between six and twelve, we have had more than our share of the Ballad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

Summer's heat waves proved too much for many a coonskin cap. but Davy Crockett has summer's sound waves well in hand. The Ballad of Davy Crockett with a flash sale of some 7,000,000 records seems on the way to the summit of non-seasonal sales.* Davy is undisputed King of the Wild Frontier in three cold-cash categories-Popular. Western and Kiddie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King Davy & Friends | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

Hillbilly-humor lovers have already bought more than 110,000 recordings of the month-old Ballad of Davy Crew-cut (Homer & Jethro; RCA Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King Davy & Friends | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...Homemade Ballad. One night in the Bucket of Blood saloon at Virginia City, Nev., Emrich heard a miner bellow, "Who shot Maggie in the freckle?" Back to his room he went to compose a ballad of his own that was eventually brought back to him from Australia as an original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Treasury of Song | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

Twenty-two months later, Joe Hillstrom was taken out like Don Jesse Neal, and the firing squad's bullets were plugged into the target over his heart-and a ballad was born that has warmed the hearts of millions of union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: Tales of the Firing Squad | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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