On this date in music history the Yellow Rose of Texas by Mitch Miller was the #1 song in the country on the Billboard charts. It was the 2nd #1 song in the history of the rock era. Mitch Miller was a critic of rock music but was a major influence of rock in his position as one of the heads of Columbia records. He was thrust into the limelight when his song, a new version of an old Civil War tune, went to #1. When Miller produced the record he liked it so much he ordered 100,000 to be pressed. One of his executives disagreed with the order and Mitch said he would buy back any unsold copies. He didn’t have to buy any of them back. The song was #1 for 6 weeks. His next project was an album called Sing Along With Mitch and was one of the first albums that included the lyrics so the listener could sing with the record. It was a huge hit. NBC gave him a special on TV. It did so well that they gave him his own show, Sing Along With Mitch, which ran from 1961 to 1966.
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