Back in 1927, DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters came into the studio with this wonderful arrangement of an old minstrel song, Merry Girl (one of the eight happy love songs that i know). When it was pointed out to them that records now had TWO sides (early Ernest Stoneman were on those thick Edison one-sided records, but I digress) they retired among themselves and came up with that wonderful version of "Yellow Rose of Texas" with the politically incorrect words that every old time band plays. The "B" side was the big hit.
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