Artist: Elton Britt
Author: Fred Rose
Label: RCA Victor
Year: 1947
Written by Fred Rose, Acuff's partner in the music publishing company that put Nashville on the map as a major music centre. Acuff-Rose Publishing worked as a magnet soon as they administred Hank Williams' catalogue ('46).
Covers:
Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys [for Columbia; introduced the song on radio in '45]
Hank Williams [Mother's Best transcription]
Frankie Yankovic [AmPol bandleader accordionist]
Willie Nelson [his first n°1 C&W]
Eva Cassidy [posthumous release]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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