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"Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)" (originally "Blue Yodel", often called "Blue Yodel No. 1" or "T For Texas") is a song by American singer-songwriter Jimmie Rodgers. The recording was produced by Ralph Peer , who had originally recorded with Rodgers during the Bristol Sessions .
Jimmie Rodgers’s first blue yodel, “Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) ”, was recorded on November 30, 1927, in the Trinity Baptist Church at Camden, New Jersey. When the song was released in February 1928 it became "a national phenomenon and generated an excitement and record-buying frenzy that no-one could have predicted."
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1928 in country music, "Blue Yodel" recorded by Jimmie Rodgers "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)" [8] [9] Top Country Record, and one of several million sellers by Rodgers. [6] 1929 in country music, "Wildwood Flower" [10] [9] by the Carter Family top country record and sells one million copies. Gene Autry makes his first recordings.
Examples include Blue Yodel No. 1 by Bob Wills with yodels by Tommy Duncan or the recordings of Mule Skinner Blues by Bill Monroe. In 1950, Monroe recorded the faster-paced New Mule Skinner Blues , a George Vaughn Horton (the brother of Ralph Peer's former partner and CMA chairman Roy Horton) under the pseudonym George Vaughan, which was ...
A second session with Rodgers was later arranged in Camden, New Jersey, at the singer's own insistence; that session produced "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)". The song became a success, propelling Rodgers to national fame and beginning his recording career with the label, during which he produced over 100 songs.
His first blue yodel, known as "Blue Yodel No. 1" (T For Texas), was recorded in the Trinity Baptist Church at Camden, New Jersey. [42] When the song was released in February 1928 it became "a national phenomenon and generated an excitement and record-buying frenzy that no-one could have predicted".
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