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Elton Britt
12+ albums
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about
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. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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Uranium Fever
110,5322Cowpoke
11,5313The Legend Of The Big Rock Candy Mountain
3,0204Give Me a Pinto Pal
2,9115There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
2,5416Patent Leather Boots
2,1607Uranium Fever - 2024 Remastered
2,0698Tennessee Yodel Polka
1,7999Chime Bells
1,74510That's How the Yodel Was Born
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