NRR Project: 'Walking the Floor Over You' (1941)

 

NRR Project: ‘Walking the Floor Over You’

Composed and performed by Ernest Tubb

Recorded April 26, 1941

2:04

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).