Elton Britt was a popular country singer of the 1940s, with a yodeling style often compared to Jimmie Rodgers. He released over 600 singles and 60 albums, and is best known for “There’s A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere,” which was the first country song awarded a gold record for selling more than a million copies. The song was adopted as a symbol of the war effort by patriotic audiences, and President Franklin Roosevelt invited Britt to the White House in 1942 to perform the hit.
During the 1950s, Britt made a habit of retiring and then coming out of retirement shortly afterwards. When he retired in 1960, it was to make an unsuccessful bid for president of the United States, on the Democratic ticket. He had his last major hit in 1968, with a seven-minute yodeling song called “The Jimmie Rodgers Blues.”
“Christmas in November,” released in 1962, is a weepy story about “little Jevy” who “won’t be with us in December,” so they have Christmas a month early. The whole song is very sappy, but the creepiest part of the song is the fact that the father’s biggest concern seems to be what the neighbors will think.
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