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Artist:Guy Mitchell
Label:  Columbia
Country:UK
Catalogue:D.B. 3238
Date:3 Mar 1953
Format:10"
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 44 Own, 3 Want
Price Guide:$3
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
AGuy MitchellShe Wears Red FeathersB. Merrill10.0  Rate
BGuy MitchellWhy Should I Go HomeB. Merrill10.0  Rate


Notes

with Mitch Miller and His Orchestra and Chorus

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Comments and Reviews
 
xiphophilos
2nd Jan 2025
 Purchase tax code DTP was in force December 30, 1950 - April 15, 1953. That means the March 3, 1953 release date falls squarely within the dates for this tax code.
 
 
scrough
2nd Jan 2025
 It is first announced as a new 78rpm in the supplement for March 1953. Perhaps the DTP tax code is more related to to the pressing date, rather than the release date?
 
 
Pridesale
1st Jan 2025
 I think the 3 March 1953 date here is wrong . can you check your books for a late Jan / Early Feb Release. DTP Tax code would indicate an earlier month
CO 47484
CO 48391
Slightly later pressing with N Tax Code shown on Discogs
 
 
YankeeDisc SUBS
25th Aug 2019
 She Wears Red Feathers

....a song from my youth I never tire of hearing......

Guy sings #....I work in a London Bank....#......yeah, Right....

acknowledgements to previous video posted by soultwinz......"He's dead, Jim..."
 
 
soultwinz SUBS
30th May 2016
 

Love the fabulous flip
 
 
fixbutte
29th Mar 2016
 Changed to Feb 1953 for now, where it goes well together with nearby numbers in the Columbia catalogue, which could have been released earlier as well. Somebody with better information may take over.

Also corrected Mitch Miller's misspelled name.
 
 
ZebedyZak
29th Mar 2016
 Actually, it reached Number 1 in the NME charts on 13 Mar 1953. It entered the charts on 13 Feb 1953 but it did not go straight in at Number 1, it took another month to go all the way. That release date of March 1953 is wrong, however. The latest it could have been released was 6 February 1953, but since the chart was only a Top 12 in those days it was probably released in January 1953.

I heard this song in a movie soundtrack once (I can't remember which movie it was). The song was released some nine years before I was born.

Oddly enough, Guy Mitchell's two British chart-toppers in 1953 were not his biggest successes in the States. This one only got to number 19 in the USA, while his other UK smash in 1953, "Look At That Girl", did nothing at all over there. His only transatlantic chart-topper was "Singing The Blues", although he did hit the top in both countries with different singles.
 
 
doberman
6th Aug 2013
 'Feathers' another great sing-along song from Guy Mitchell.
 
 
Alan Warby
30th Jun 2013
 Reached Number 1 in the NME charts, 13 Feb 1953.
 

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