I should have added that, yes, "Daniel Boone (The Daddy Of Them All)" is best described as a pop spin-off of the Davy Crockett craze, as noted by Genie on January 13, 2012. I found the following text excerpt on Newspapers.com. Misspellings are from their computer conversion. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/155550733/ WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, FRIDAY, JUNE 24. 1955 PAGE 15 Just how long the Crockett craze will reign is hard to guess, but so far Davy's No. 1 spot In the hearts of young Americans has weathered every challenge, the latest one being the defiant musical claim, "Daniel Boone was the Daddy of them all," which, apparently, hasn't even made a dent in the solid Crockett fan line. Obviously, this pre-teen-age loyalty is not to be underestimated. When kids go to bed with coonskin caps in weather like this, it's the real McCoy. For collectors of choice cou now nis lame has been only comparable to that of Ponce de Leon, Captain John Smith or Nathan Hale. Don't misunderstand ... no one's trying te minimize the greatness of any one of these men, but certainly no one not even the father of our country has been the object of such rabid adulation by youngsters as Daw Crockett.
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