Yellow Rose of Texas by Mitch Miller 1955 (with images of Mitch)

[TheDustysix]

god bless our country!

[fromthesidelines]

This was originally featured on an LP Mitch recorded in the fall of 1954, "The Confereracy".

[Dlanorepmart]

I was 15 the summer that this was a hit. It reminds me of threshing oats and wheat. And my desire to buy a car the next year (which I did). Someone had told me by now what girls were for. It was a great time to be a kid. And I played the bass drum in the high school marching band.

[SatchmoSings]

What a ridiculous and utterly banal record; the echo-chamber is especially irksome.

[sharpnova2]

@SatchmoSings you had me at banal. you had my hate. and you had my disgust at irksome.

Faggot.

[SatchmoSings]

@sharpnova2 You actually LIKE this and consider this to be something aesthetically GOOD?

It's obvious that you're the faggot.

[sharpnova2]

@SatchmoSings Good. My accurate assessment of you had exactly the reaction I wanted.

Btw you threw in another homo-indicator: "aesthetically"

Also I really doubt we could trace homosexuality back to "the faggot" I never said you were the first.. just the gayest.

Just the most flamboyantly disgustingly unintelligent homosexual alive. I guess in that sense you could be seen as the modern day fag of fags. The one true faggot of our time.

Geez you must love cock so much.

[SatchmoSings]

@sharpnova2 Yeah, someone uses a few "two-dollar words" and you get all bent out of shape because you're an illiterate.

Only a fag is a Mitch Miller fan.

[sharpnova2]

@SatchmoSings it's not that i don't understand the words. it's that i'm heterosexual enough to not use them.

btw, illiterate is an adjective. not a noun.

admit you were wrong and apologize or do not reply.

[SatchmoSings]

@sharpnova2 I'll do what I want; there is no way for you to stop me.

Yeah, so being educated is "homosexual" while being a muttering and stuttering illiterate who listens to Mitch Miller records is obviously cool.

[sharpnova2]

@SatchmoSings so far you're the only one who's done anything indicative of low intelligence. sorry that bothers you so much?

i'm a mathematician/physicist/comput­er scientist. those are intellectual fields.

you're just a pseudointellectual who uses big words that EVERYONE knows, but only homosexual pseudointellectuals use.

example: math majors score higher on average on the verbal portion of the SAT than english majors.

a perfect example of why a mind like mine is superior to one like yours.

[SatchmoSings]

@sharpnova2 "i'm a mathematician/physicist/comput­­er scientist."

All big faggot words from someone that scores SO HIGHLY on SAT's that you listen to such absolutely shit music.

[sharpnova2]

@SatchmoSings sorry i do math/physics/compewpew

did i make the words small enough for you? lol

and i scored perfectly on the SAT as anyone with an iq over 145 is likely to do

[miganovisky]

up the rebels

[TheLASingleGuy]

Note to all those other single guys out there: if you're going on your first date with a Texan girl, bring her a bouquet of yellow roses. ;-)

[gurukunplus]

I have been to Texas When I was 15 yeas old from Japan.

I like Texas.

[tkyaheya]

Lovely! Very nostalgic+++++++++

[cfjermedal1]

The yellow rose of Texas beats the belle's of Tennessee!!

[Thesamjam5]

@cfjermedal1 hey Im from Tennessee >:3

[mkl62]

A #1 song for Mitch Miller. It finished at #3 for the year, 1955. On September 3, it was declared the #1 song in the USA, knocking the historical hit, Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets, from the top spot. "Clock" hit #1 on July 9, which signified the beginning of the Rock Era. 1955 will be remembered as the year that the music scene changed forever with Haley's hit.

[kcaruso37]

@mkl62

Wow, guess what? Sept3rd 1955, they played the top 40 hits of that week. Sept3 1955, was on a Saturday!. yep this year is just like 1956. yes, we have leap yr this year just like 1956. so last year(2011) was just like 1955, the exact same days

[Dlanorepmart]

This was a top tune as I was going into my sophomore year of high school.

[lmrdjm275]

@Dlanorepmart What year was that if you don't mind me asking?

[Dlanorepmart]

@lmrdjm275 1955! My last year without a driver's license.

[dass0137]

this reminds my of George W Bush

[ramey58]

@dass0137 HUH?

[mkworkman]

3:36 video: Mitch Miller made Don George's reworking of the song into a popular recording in 1955 that knocked Bill Haley's "(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock" from the top of the Best Sellers chart in the US. Miller's version was featured in the motion picture Giant.

April 21, 1836: Battle of San Jacinto

[bigredoneder]

I was three when this came out. My mom and my aunt told me when this came on the radio I made everybody be quiet and listen. I don't remember doing that, but I do remember this was the first song I ever loved.

[Xboxliveaddict22]

this song was #1 on the top ten when my grandma was born

[sheltv100]

I am shocked! I never knew that Mitch Miller was alive up until July 2010! He was such a great musician. Mitch RIP.

[MatthewCVR]

@sheltv100 99 years old! Wow