Davy Crockett (adventure, starring Fess Parker)

    (ABC Primetime within "Disneyland", 1954 - 1955)

     ["Davy Crockett" consisted of 3 mini-series which were broadcast within 
     Walt Disney's "Disneyland" show, 1954 - 1955; This caught on with children,
     and began a mini-craze of children wearing "coonskin caps"; It also resulted
     in a hit recording of the THEME song, which began: "Born on a mountaintop in
     Tennessee, Greenest state in the Land of the Free, Raised in the woods so's 
     he knew every tree. Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three..."]

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Theme: "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"

     Composers: music by George E. Bruns (ASCAP/BMI), and
                lyrics by Tom Blackburn (BMI)

     1978 Publisher: Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI)
     
     2000 Publisher: Wonderland Music Company, Inc. (BMI),
                       c/o Walt Disney Music Publishing,
                       of Burbank, CA

                     
     Unpublished Copyright Date: Oct.  8, 1954; Eu 373 371.
     Published   Copyright Date: Jan. 20, 1955; EP  86 997.

     Recordings:

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