Ding Dong Momma from Dumas - Little Kim & the Alley Apple 3 - live @ the N9 Music Club

Our adaptation of the well known song "Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas" ... Live @ the N9 Music Club in Eeklo (Belgium).

Dumas was a small village with only 571 souls in the 1920s and late in that decade a man who was to become a moderately successful band leader and song writer, Phil Baxter, chanced upon Dumas. He spent a few weeks in Dumas getting acquainted and after he had a steak continued his journey. Les than a year later Baxter penned the words and tune to a song which he name Im a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas.

The catchy song gained national recognition when Phil Harris, band leader for the Jack Benny Radio Show, recorded the song.

Dumas, like many smaller towns, grew and prospered during the years prior to and during World War II. During this time several industrial plants had been constructed and the town boasted 2,117 population in 1940. Shortly after the end of World War II, local Dumas residents organized and began operations of radio station KDDD. The three Ds came from the song Im a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas.

Radio station KDDD used the song as its theme song and later early radio station manager, and later owner, Ken Duke, commission an Amarillo commercial artist, Hut Hutson, to create an image of the Ding Dong Daddy of the song.

As a result, Hutson created the caricature that is the Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas complete with radio microphone. The radio station copyrighted the caricature and used it as its trademark. The little Ding Dong Daddy became popular and in the early 1950s KDDD loaned the logo to the Dumas Chamber of Commerce for use in promoting Dumas, with the provision that the logo not be used by any commercial business other than to boost Dumas. (Source: http://www.dumaschamber.com/legends.htm)

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[pirrung123]

I just love it :o)

[whitefalcon64]

Great guitar !!

[KrisShred]

great

[PhilCLG4]

5 stars.//Phil

[rothrock65]

Go, LittleKim! TR