Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, and their fellow Golden West Cowboys members were en route to Nashville "close to Christmas in 1946" when King and Stewart, who were riding in a truck carrying the
's equipment, heard Bill Monroe's new song "Kentucky Waltz" on the radio. Stewart had an idea to write a Tennessee waltz using the melody of King's theme song: "No Name Waltz", and wrote the lyrics on a matchbox as he and King thought up the words.[4] King and Stewart presented "Tennessee Waltz" to music publisher Fred Rose the next day, and Rose adjusted one line of Stewart's lyric: "O the Tennessee waltz, O the Tennessee Waltz," to "I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz."
A considerable amount of time passed before Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys were able to record "Tennessee Waltz". Their recording was made in a December 2, 1947 session at the RCA Victor Studio in Chicago.[5] Its release as Victor (20–2680) was noted the following month.[6]
Acuff-Rose Music, the publisher, did not immediately register a copyright to the song when it was presented to the company by King and Stewart and did not obtain the "consummate proof of ownership, and the key to protecting a songwriter's property" until February 1948.[7]
A version by Cowboy Copas, a former member of the Golden West Cowboys was released by King Records (King 696) two months later in March 1948.[8]
Both singles became Top Ten C&W hits – the chart was then known as "Best Selling Folk Retail Records" – in the spring and summer of 1948 with respective peaks of No. 3 (Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys)[9] and No. 6 (Cowboy Copas).[10]
Patti Page recorded the song – as "The Tennessee Waltz" – to serve as B-side to the seasonal single "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus", issued by Mercury Records as Catalog# 5534 at the end of 1950. It's been asserted that Page herself chose to record "Tennessee Waltz", the C&W version being a favorite song of her father, and also that Jerry Wexler, then a record reviewer for Billboard brought "Tennessee Waltz" to the attention of Page's manager, Jack Rael, by playing him a new R&B rendition by Erskine Hawkins. Page cut "The Tennessee Waltz" in a November 1950 session in New York City with Rael conducting his orchestra: her vocal was cut multitracked with three voices, with two, and as a single voice with Page herself selecting the two-voice multitracked vocal featured on the single as released. "The Tennessee Waltz" entered the Pop Music chart of Billboard dated November 10, 1950 for a 30-week chart run and peaked at number one on the December 30, 1950 chart; the track would remain at number one for a total of nine weeks.
แผ่นผมไม่น่าผลิตหลังจาก ๑๙๕๐ แน่ๆ จริงๆ เสียงมันเหมือนผลิดยุคแรกๆ ๑๙๓๐ โน่น แต่คนแต่ง ๑๙๔๖ อัด ๑๙๔๗ ออกขายแผ่นแรก มกราคม ๑๙๔๘ (๒๔๙๑) ก่อนผมเกิดสิบปีพอดีเปะ แล้วช่วงนี้แผ่น Blue Note ผลิตออกมาขาย ตอนนี้ราคา ๕ แผ่นล้านบาท ราคาผิดถูกอย่างไร คุณอุ้มเขียนในหนังสือเครื่องเสียงและเขียนลงในเฟสบุ๊คแบบนี้นะครับ
เพลงที่ผมฟังจะใช้แซ็กโซโฟนเสียงแผดตอนต้น และกลางๆ เพลงจะมีเปียโน เสียงดนตรีเหมือนอัดตอน ๑๙๓๐ ไม่ใช่เสียงที่ชัดเจนแบบในคลิปทักคลิปที่ผมเปิดครับ คนร้องประสานเสียงคล้ายๆ Patti Page และ Mary Ford แต่ร้องเร็วคล้ายๆ Mary Ford มากกว่า ร้องเร็วพอๆ กัน แต่เสียงขึ้นสูงและลงต่ำกว่า ร้องสบัดๆ มีทำเสียงสั่นๆ มากกว่า สรุปเสียงโบราณมากกว่าในทักคลิปครับ
