Misplaced Pages

White Cross on Okinawa

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
1945 single by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
"White Cross on Okinawa"
Single by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
B-side"Empty Chair at the Christmas Table"
ReleasedNovember 12, 1945 (1945-11-12)
RecordedOctober 3, 1945
StudioCBS, Hollywood, California
GenreWestern swing
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bob Wills, Cliff Johnsen, Cliff Sundin
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys singles chronology
"Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight"
(1945) 		"White Cross on Okinawa"
(1945) 		"New Spanish Two Step"
(1946)

"White Cross on Okinawa" is 1945 song by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. The song was Bob Wills' fourth number one on the Juke Box Folk chart where it spent a single week at the top and a total of five weeks on the chart.

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 392.
Stub icon

This 1940s country song-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: