"The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a traditional folk song which has long been popular in the United States and is considered an unofficial state song of Texas. The actual author is unknown.
Don George rearranged the original version of the song, which Mitch Miller made into a popular recording 1955 that knocked Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" from the top of the Best Sellers chart in the U.S. The song stayed in the top of the chart for 6 weeks (5 weeks in August - September, with a break of 1 week, and topped the chart again for another week in October).
Mitch MillerMitch Miller is an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive. He was one of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of Artists & Repertoire at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist.
In his early career, Mitch had guided such acts like Frankie Laine and Patti to success. When he was in Columbia Records, he made stars out of Tony Bennett, Johnnie Ray, Guy Mitchell and many others.
Miller's own recording career as a pop artist and conductor began, with big-scale choral recordings credited to "Mitch Miller and His Gang." Their first hit was a bold rendition of the Israeli folk song "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena". The group later chalked up a six-week run at the number one spot with "The Yellow Rose of Texas". Miller and company also enjoyed huge hit singles with numbers like the "Colonel Bogey March" from the war epic "The Bridge on the River Kwai". Between 1958 and 1962, "Mitch Miller and the Gang" chalked up 19 Top 40 hits.
Mitch also hosted a very popular (early karaoke?) NBC-TV series called the "Sing Along With Mitch" in 1961.
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