Word: crocketts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...viewed with interest the versions of the so-called Ballad of Davy Crockett. There are undoubtedly few people who realize that this is a typical bourgeois, capitalistic, warmongering act in which the authors have-as usual-taken credit for an invention by the great Russian people. We present our original translation of this great Soviet folk song -Ballad of Joey Stalin...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts got right with the bubble-gum set last week, by exhibiting a rare contemporary portrait of Davy Crockett. Painted by one John Neagle in 1828, it shows Crockett as a freshman Congressman in a flowing tie. The canvas jibes well with a contemporary word picture of Crockett in Washington, which described Davy as "a tall, athletic man with raven-black hair, parted on his forehead and falling upon his neck, with large, keen black eyes and a mild, frank, good-natured expression of face." Just in case any small fry failed to recognize their hero...
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...
...Manhattan's Lower East Side came a Yiddish-speaking frontiersman named Duvid Crockett (Mickey Katz; Capitol), who has also sold more than 200,000 disks...
Born in the wilds of Delancey Street, Home of gefilte fish and kosher meat, Handy with a knife, oh herr sack tzi [listen with care], Flicked [plucked] him a chicken when he was only three! Duvid, Duvid Crockett, King of Delancey Street...