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...those who work at the post's sawmill or auto-maintenance shop, or in the vegetable garden, where they grow food for their own use. Out of their wages they have bought instruments for an orchestra; some of them are good musicians. Their favorite U.S. songs: Pistol Packin' Mamma, Mairzy Doats...
First record made by Decca under the new contract: Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in Pistol Packin' Mama...
...like Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Roy Acuff and Al Dexter were selling on disks as never before. Top-flight songsters like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were making their biggest smashes with hill billy tunes. A homely earful of the purest Texas corn, Al Dexter's Pistol Packin' Mama, had edged its way to first place among the nation's juke-box favorites...
...hands of Tin Pan Alley's veterans. Almost any simple soul might write hillbilly words and the composition of hillbilly music has always been regarded by Tin Pan Alley as a variety of unskilled labor, Chief among the newcomers are Texas-born Al Dexter (Pistol Packin' Mama), Indiana-born Freddie Rose (Low & Lonely, I'll Reap My Harvest in Heaven), the Carter Family of Bristol, Va. (I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes), Texas-born Bob Wills (New San Antonio Rose...