Blog: Geezer Music Club

If you're like me, you would assume that the biggest hit record of World War II was probably something along the lines of Glenn Miller's "In The Mood" or maybe the Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," but even though they were very popular they weren't the biggest. That would be Elton Britt's "There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere," which sold over 4 million copies - an enormous number for that era. A yodeling singer in the tradition of Jimmie Rodgers (and later Slim Whitman), Elton Britt was born in Arkansas as James Britt Baker [...]

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