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Elton Britt

Elton Britt

Elton Britt has been played on NTS in shows including Country Hayride, featured first on 24 March 2019. Songs played include Give Me A Pinto Pal.

Elton Britt (June 27, 1913 – June 22, 1972), was an American country music guitarist and singer-songwriter. He recorded over 600 sides and 60 albums for RCA and other labels in more than a 30-year span, and is best known for such hit songs (several of which he wrote or co-wrote) as "Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)," "Detour," "Chime Bells," "Maybe I'll Cry Over You," "Pinto Pal," and the million-selling wartime hit "There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere".

A singer, bandleader, radio and television performer, songwriter and standard-setting yodeler, he starred in at least two films in the late 1940s, and had hit records as late as 1968 with "The Jimmie Rodgers Blues".

His song [song]Uranium Fever[/song] was used in the game Fallout 4 on the commonwealth radio station.

He died on June 23, 1972, five days before his 59th birthday, due to a heart attack.

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Elton Britt

Elton Britt has been played on NTS in shows including Country Hayride, featured first on 24 March 2019. Songs played include Give Me A Pinto Pal.

Elton Britt (June 27, 1913 – June 22, 1972), was an American country music guitarist and singer-songwriter. He recorded over 600 sides and 60 albums for RCA and other labels in more than a 30-year span, and is best known for such hit songs (several of which he wrote or co-wrote) as "Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)," "Detour," "Chime Bells," "Maybe I'll Cry Over You," "Pinto Pal," and the million-selling wartime hit "There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere".

A singer, bandleader, radio and television performer, songwriter and standard-setting yodeler, he starred in at least two films in the late 1940s, and had hit records as late as 1968 with "The Jimmie Rodgers Blues".

His song [song]Uranium Fever[/song] was used in the game Fallout 4 on the commonwealth radio station.

He died on June 23, 1972, five days before his 59th birthday, due to a heart attack.

Original source: Last.fm

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Give Me A Pinto Pal
Elton Britt
RCA Victor1955