[QCWA] Route 66 Corrected

[Tom H Childers]

Dave,

Thanks for that bit of information.  I wonder if you know where to
get a copy of the Nat King Cole version?  I don't think I've ever
heard it.

73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
ARRL Lifetime Member
QCWA Lifetime Member

On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 05:34:17 +0000, Dave Heil <k8mn at frontiernet.net>
wrote:

>
>The last printed issue of the magazine arrived here today.  My eyes 
>bugged-out a bit when I read that Woody Guthrie had written "Route 66" 
>and that the tune had been changed a little for the early Sixties TV 
>show of the same name.  The tunes weren't similar at all. The jazzy TV 
>show theme was written by composer/conductor Nelson Riddle.  Woody 
>Guthrie had nothing to do with the "Route 66" first recorded by Nat King 
>Cole in 1946.  That song was penned by Bobby Troup.
>
>73 and Merry Christmas,
>
>Dave Heil K8MN
>
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