Vernon Dalhart - Big Rock Candy Mountain (1927). video free download

Recorded 1927...Born Marion Try Slaughter in Jefferson TEXAS (1883 - 1948)..."The First Star of Country Music"...Famous for selling SEVEN MILLION copies of his 1924 Recording of "The Wreck Of The Old '97" (A HUGE Number for the 1920's)....Recorded Over 1000 Sides under at least 100 names...Many Of The Masters were released under a dozen or more Labels....Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame 1970......Country Music Hall of Fame 1981 (The Country Music Foundation Called Dalhart a One Man Recording Industry).....Texas Country Music Hall of Fame 1997