Early Tex Morton - The Yellow Rose Of Texas [1938].

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[Meade and Wikipedia - The earliest published version 1853 Christie's Plantation Melodies No.2 Published by Edwin Pearce Christy who Founded "Christy's Minstrels...The author is unknown;... Firth, Pond and Company of New York dated September 2, 1858, identifies the composer and arranger as "J.K."; its lyrics are "almost identical" to those in the handwritten manuscript, though it says it had been arranged and composed for the vaudeville performer Charles H. Brown.."Yellow Rose Of Texas" (The Center for American History at the University of Texas has an unpublished early handwritten version of the song, perhaps dating from the time of the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836].
Recorded 25 April 1924 by Ernest Thompson
23 February 1926 by Sam Long
as "Echoes Of The Ozarks
Circa May 1927 by De Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters
28 September 1927 by North Carolina Cooper Boys
as "Red Rose of Texas
and Thousands of Others

Issued on Regal Zonophone 23383 B.
Also Recorded 1948 From Radio Program

Recorded 10 March 1938 Columbia Studios, Homebush, Sydney, NSW, Australia -
Tex Morton [gt/yodelling/vcl solo].

Born Robert William Lane in Nelson NZ [1916 - 1983]
Recorded 1936 to 1941
1942 Radio Transcriptions
1943 - ONE Session - Columbia*
*In 1943, He left Columbia following a dispute with Arch Kerr, the Record Sales Manager,
probably over the company's reluctance to use [pay] The Rough Riders.
1945 Radio Shows
1948 and 1949 Radio Shows and Transcriptions
1949 to 1950 Recorded for Rodeo and Tasman [NZ]
1953 to 1973

1974 - "Goondiwindi Grey" Song Of The Year
1976 - 1st. Inductee in Aust. Roll of Renown
1977 - Hands of Fame