Re: Elton Britt
Anyone who's never heard that is definately in for an experience. I actually have it on a late 60's-early 70's RCA album of Elton Britt hits.
> There's a classic country show on our local community
> station WRDV in Hatboro, suburban Philadelphia, Pa. that
> still plays a lot of Elton Britt & pre-50's artists. You
> can listen online at wrdv.org Fridays 7-10pm eastern. I'm
> sure if you called & requested any of these songs host Jack
> Boland would have them & play them. The long yodel note on
> Chime Bells IS amazing to hear!
>
>
>
> > According to the BB Book of Country Hits, Elton Britt had
> 11
> > chart singles between 1945 and 1950, the highest charting
> > being "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)" which peaked
>
> > at #2 (for 5 weeks) in 1946. "There's A Star Spangled
> > Banner Waving Somewhere" was his biggest hit by far, but
> was
> > released in 1942, I believe, before the charts were
> started.
> > I've heard sales estimates as high as 5 million copies.
> > After 1950, he faded from the charts, but returned in the
> > summer of 1968 with a song called "Jimmie Rodgers' Blues"
> > which actually got into the mid 20's on the charts, which
> I
> > think is amazing for that time, because A. it's a singer
> who
> > hadn't had a hit in about 18 years, B. the song was about
> a
> > singer who, while legendary, had been gone for over 30
> > years, and C. the song is about 5 1/2 minutes long; a
> rarity
> > in those days. I also heard one time on American Country
> > Countdown, several years ago, that Britt's 1948 hit "Chime
>
> > Bells" holds the distinction of having longest held note
> of
> > any song to ever reach country's top 40. Now that's
> > trivia!!!!
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > > > Is the "Rocket Man" only the second musician in the
> > > > "country" music books with the name of Elton?
> > > >
> > > > Anyone recall Elton Britt? Were there any other
> > > "Eltons"?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
http://www.mp3.com/elton-britt/artists/21682/biography.html
> > > >
> > > I'm too young to really remember Elton Britt - but my
> > > grandmother remembers him and says he was quite the
> > yodeler.
> > > One of his biggest songs was "There's A Star-Spangled
> > Banner
> > > Waving Somewhere," released in 1942 on the RCA Bluebird
> > > label.
> > >
> > > Apparently, his career had peaked by the time the charts
>
> > > came into existence in 1944.
> > >
> >
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