Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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50s Country and Western "Calypso" Music from TV Broadcast : "Town Hall Party" February 14, 1959.
Written By : Richard Dehr, Frank Miller, Terry Gilkyson.
Also Recorded By : Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra (as "Mary Ann" Columbia US 1953) The Lane Brothers (RCA Victor 1957)
Terry Gilkyson & The Easy Riders (Columbia US 1957)
Burl Ives With The Trinidaddies (Decca 1957)
The Hilltoppers (Dot 1957)
Jimmy Leyden (Bell Records 1957)
The King Brothers (Parlophone 1957)
Gloria Lasso ("French Version" La Voix De Son Maître 1957)
Henri Salvador ("French Version" Barclay 1958)
The Brothers Four (Columbia US 1960)
Bill Forbes (Columbia UK 1962)
Harry Belafonte (RCA Camden 1973) And Many Others...

Columbia Records released a Town Hall Party LP album in 1958, featuring many of the regular cast members of the series.
That same year, however, brought changes to the program.
NBC radio had discontinued carrying the Saturday night shows, and rising union scale rates made it impossible for Wagnon to keep the huge cast of recording artists on the Compton stage week after week.
The band was made smaller and many regular cast members departed in 1958.
Billy Mize and Cliff Crofford, talented vocalists/instrumentalists/composers, joined the much smaller cast as band members and soloists.

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