• 1955 and 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett'...All 5 Versions that Charted

    On this date 60 years ago, a strange incident occurred on the popular songs chart: Four different versions of the same exact song, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett," came in the Hot 100. Thanks to the internet, it's easier for a wider variety of performers to exist and makes it less enticing for a record label to put five different versions of the same exact song. Imagine if Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and Shakira were all replicating each other constantly. Then again, the song in question was boosted by "the Crockett craze" generated by Disney's three-episode biopic on the legendary frontier fellow (some have called it the first miniseries). Let's take a look at the four different singles that managed to chart during the summer of '55.
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