Denro says my lack of appreciation for Mitch Miller is due to the fact that his recording of The Yellow Rose of Texas was #1 in September, 1955, the week that I was born. Well, it’s true, I would have preferred anything else, even The Ballad of Davy Crockett!
The first video has the original Mitch Miller recording of The Yellow Rose of Texas…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Lakexqqqc
… and the second has Stan Freberg’s parody of Mitch. Both are taken from 78 rpm records posted by fave YouTube member 45s4FR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-By0vBrzDE
The Yellow Rose of Texas was written in 1858, and Texas has certainly changed since then, so let’s update things a bit, with this pair of TV commercials, made by an old friend of mine, for a restaurant chain called Cotton Patch Cafe. The first one has a straight-forward ZZ Top-style boogie…
…and I love the second spot, featuring music of epic proportions to go with the food of epic portions!