The Homer & Jethro Project #30

#30

Keeping it real.
Keeping it going.

1955, fuck yeah!

June 1955 - RCA 47-6178 - Ballad of Davy Crew-Cut / Homer & Jethro's Pickin' And Singin' Medley No. 1

For 1955 while a few adults were still perhaps indulging themselves with the mambo, for the mostly male underage set a Disney made 5 episode TV miniseries about Davy Crockett was the shit.  It turned into a regular mania that set fear in the heart of raccoons everywhere wondering if they'd be next with a post mortem date with a milliner.

 It's theme song became a minor triumph when for the first time in who knows how long, people actually remembered the Alamo. 

Into this Americana frenzy Homer and Jethro sent out this missive in the hopes of gaining a touch of reflected glory on the phenomenon to little or no avail

The flip is them stringing together a medley of turn of the century western songs into a tight two minute record side including snippets from:

"My Pony Boy" here sung in 1909 by Miss Ada Jones
"Cheyenne" by Billy Murray
"San Antonio" also by Billy Murray 
and
"Pride of the Prairie" yet again by Billy Murray

(I don't know what you're getting out of this, but I'm learning a shit load about music putting this stuff together. It's cool as fuck.)

September 1955 - RCA 47-6241 - Yaller Rose of Texas / Listen to the Gooney Bird


Without fearing for their own safety and with reckless abandon Homer & Jethro went and recorded a rewritten version of the beloved song "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (linked here to a version by the Texas Troubadour himself, Ernest Tubb) Which has been a favorite among the "Confederate Flag is muh Heritage" set (who heavily identify with the losing side of history then and now) going all the way back to the time the South was failing to rise the first time around.

The song itself dates back to a mid-19th Century Minstrel show by Christy's Minstrels and first published as "Christy's Plantation Melodies. No. 2" with the first verse beginning:

"There's a yellow girl in Texas
That I'm going down to see
No other darkies know her
No darkey, only me..."

So there's that.

Homer and Jethro's Yaller Rose though is a peach of song which has nothing whatsoever to do with any other nonsense than itself. 
Enjoy it as such.

B side is fortunately an original tune without any additional historical baggage and therefore can be enjoyed guilt free and gluten free, and in this case, free.