What makes the Tennessee Waltz so beautiful?
The song is beautiful to me for its warm memories of childhood. My mother played that record, 78 rpm on shellac, and danced around holding me up high, singing along with Patti Page. But it's not just simple sentimentality that endears Tennessee Waltz to so many people.
Patti Page recorded Tennessee Waltz as the B side of a 1950 Christmas disc and since then it's been recorded more than 300 times, and won the BMI's 3,000,000 Airplay Award - the equivalent to 17.1 years of continuous playing!
In 1965, Tennessee Waltz became the fourth official song of the State of Tennessee.
The song is beautiful to me for its warm memories of childhood. My mother played that record, 78 rpm on shellac, and danced around holding me up high, singing along with Patti Page. But it's not just simple sentimentality that endears Tennessee Waltz to so many people.
Patti Page recorded Tennessee Waltz as the B side of a 1950 Christmas disc and since then it's been recorded more than 300 times, and won the BMI's 3,000,000 Airplay Award - the equivalent to 17.1 years of continuous playing!
In 1965, Tennessee Waltz became the fourth official song of the State of Tennessee.
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