78 RPM - Curt And Faye Bartmess - A Falling Star / Pray For The 21 - Evangelistic - USA

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Artist:	Curt And Faye Bartmess
Label:	Evangelistic
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	EV-1
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Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Curt And Faye Bartmess	A Falling Star	Curt Bartmess	Rate
B	Curt And Faye Bartmess	Pray For The 21	Curt Bartmess	Rate

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"A Falling Star" has EV-1.A in deadwax
"Pray For The 21" has EV-1.B in deadwax

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musicdoc8 18th Jul 2019		The Korean War prisoner exchange called "Operation Big Switch" took place from August to December 1953. At its end 23 Americans chose not to go home. Given 90 days to change their minds, two did so, leaving 21 men who remained in North Korea and then went on to China. That means the earliest the B-side could have been written was late December 1953 / early January 1954. BTW, of the 21 all but two had left China by 1966.



driftinmatt 22nd Oct 2018		Thanks you guys! Al, your research is brilliant as always!



deezee 9th Oct 2018		Can't be before July 1953 going by HBRALLAN's very feasible theory, so it should be later 1953 or into 1954. He copyrighted it himself but permitted radio play. Maybe he was tired of paying 4Star Sales and the like. It looks like a Coast pressing of the period too, He told a friend that it was lifted by Jimmy Newman to become a 1957 hit, at least the tune. I've never heard it and my friend never heard Newman's 1957 hit. But the name of that was " A Fallen Star" --- not "Falling". If so, then Bobby Denton who first wrote and recorded it on Tune would have been the culprit. Never heard that but he became a politician later if that means anything....(smile). He used to have a website. ADDED: Well, James Joiner (owner of Tune) actually gets the writer's credit if that means anything. He also 'wrote' for Junior Thompson on the previous and first on the label. DJ's date stamp for Denton disc is April 5, 1957.



HBRALLAN 8th Oct 2018		I had a trawl through the Library Of Congress for both 1953 and 1954 but could not find any entries for either title. I would suggest that the record dates from the latter part of 1953 or perhaps the following year. A suggestion based upon the fact that "Pray For The 21" is about the Twenty One American Servicemen who decided to stay in North Korea with the Chinese at the end of the Korean War (July 1953).



driftinmatt 5th Oct 2018		Allan, and others: does anyone have a date for this? Presumably 1952-1954?

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