2015[37]Q -- Ins-Net Qs for Sep 11, 2015: "Mitch's Yellow Rose of Texas"

Insomniac-Net Questions -- Friday[37], Sep 11, 2015
Tonight's Topic: "Mitch's Yellow Rose of Texas"
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    According to The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, sixty years ago this week in 1955, Mitch Miller's single, The Yellow Rose of Texas, charted as the second rock and roll era No. 1 Billboard Hit.
    (Of course, as some of you probably know, based on Billboard's Best Sellers in Stores chart, the first No. 1 Hit (of the rock and roll era) was Bill Haley's pulse-pounding Rock Around the Clock.
    Discovering The Yellow Rose of Texas on an album of American Civil War songs, Mitch Miller, a record company executive, gave it a new arrangement.
    Augmenting the song's marching cadence with a vocal choir, Miller's single sold over one million copies, reaching No. 1 in early September 1955 and staying there for 6 weeks. 
    So, accordingly, for tonight's questions, how much more do you know about... Mitch Miller and The Yellow Rose of Texas?
    Please choose from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B",  or "C" (if applicable!) for each questions listed below.
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    OK, Let's guess "what's the Texas Trend will be for tonight?"....

 ++  "Mitch's Yellow Rose of Texas" ++
Question #1:  In 1951, Columbia Records hired Mitch Miller as the head of their A&R department. What does the term "A&R" mean?
        A. Acquistions and Retention, or
        B. Artists and Repertoires, or
        C. Arrangements and Recordings
Question #2: When Mitch Miller recorded his arrangement of The Yellow Rose of Texas, he included a unique musical sound -- one of the first times it was featured in a pop record. What was this musical sound?
        A. Ringing of the Alamo's mission bells (San Antonio, Texas), or
        B. Snare drums, or
        C. The U.S. Coast Guard Marching Band

 Question #3: Mitch Miller like the finished record so much that he ordered 100,000 singles to be pressed. When a Columbia Records executive objected to the large order, what did Mitch do?
        A. Quit Columbia Records and joined MCA's Decca Records as a consultant, or
        B. Said he would buy back all the unsold records at cost -- 15¢ apiece, or
        C. Left Columbia Records to star in the NBC television show Sing Along with Mitch (a Karoke-styled -- "follow the bouncing ball" -- community-sing program) for the next 6 years.
        [SOURCE: TBA -- LW's The Billboard Book of Number One Hits]
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     ++ QUOTES OF THE DAY ++  -- From the 1955 Mitch Miller rendition:

There's a yellow rose in Texas, That I am going to see,
Nobody else could miss her, Not half as much as me.
She cried so when I left her It like to broke my heart,
And if I ever find her, We nevermore will part.

[Chorus]
She's the sweetest little rosebud That Texas ever knew,
Her eyes are bright as diamonds, They sparkle like the dew;
You may talk about your Clementine, And sing of Rosalee,
But the YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS Is the only girl for me.

When the Rio Grande is flowing, The starry skies are bright,
She walks along the river In the quiet summer night:
I know that she remembers, When we parted long ago,
I promise to return again, And not to leave her so. [Chorus]

Oh now I'm going to find her, For my heart is full of woe,
And we'll sing the songs together, That we sung so long ago
We'll play the bango gaily, And we'll sing the songs of yore,
And the Yellow Rose of Texas Shall be mine forevermore. [Chorus]
[SOURCE: University of Texas, Austin archives -- Yellow Rose of Texas]

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