Tex Williams' SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE was the Number One tune in the nation on September 11, 1947
Commmander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen brought it back home to Ann Arbor, Michigan--and then the world!!!--in 1971
A classic "Ragtime" tune, this time recorded by Pee Wee Hunt (Born in 1907, his discography includes Twelth Street Rag and Dixieland. He was a member of Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra) hits #1 on the U.S. charts on September 11, 1948.
How does this fit into the EVOLUTION of ROCK 'n ROLL? Check out the intro to Billy Preston's classic Nothing From Nothing
Edwin Starr's WAR was the number one tune on Billboard on this date in 1970. I guess it's as significant today, ten years after the attacks on the United States, now known as "911," as it was in 1970.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
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