NRR Project: ‘Walking the Floor Over You’
Composed and performed by Ernest Tubb
Recorded April 26, 1941
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First, read Ronnie Pugh’s definitive essay on this selection at the National Recording Registry.
Ernest Tubb, the “Texas Troubador,” had a long and successful career, and this is his signature tune. It represents the birth of “honky tonk” music, the kind that got played on coin-operated music machines in country bars.
The National Recording Registry Project tracks one writer’s expedition through all the recordings in the National Recording Registry in chronological order. Next time: America’s Town Meeting of the Air: Should Our Ships Convoy Materials to England? (May 8, 1941).
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