King of the Wild Frontier

Davy, Davy Crockett!

Starting off with an old song, from 1955 it's The Ballad of Davy Crockett. Disney used to have a TV show called the Wonderful World of Disney. It allowed Disney to promote upcoming projects, and for Walt to experiments with different mediums. After Disney switched over to Color (with the help of Dr Ludwig Von Drake) the sale of Color TV's shot up.

Besides promotions, Disney also created miniseries that were shown every week with shows normally rotating with what to be shown. (so it could go Davy Crocket, then The Swamp Fox, then Kit Carson before being Davy Crockett again) (N.B. not a real order)



Davy Crockett was composed by George Bruns, with Lyrics by Tom Blackburn.

The popularity of Davy Crockett took Disney by surprise, and the "Crockett Craze" after it where anything doing with Davy took off like lightning. The Ballad of Davy Crockett was released and has been covered many times. From it's actor, Fess Parker to Tim Curry as his Rocky Horror Picture Show Persona.


Davy Crocket had 2 movies made of it, one was the story told on the Miniseries (3 episodes) ending with his death at the Alamo. And the second was a midquel/sequel that took place during the story about Davy Crockett sailor named Mike Fink and their adventures fighting eachother then fighting River Pirates. Personally I prefer the second one, but I have trouble with my heroes dying.



Sidenote: I am having trouble finding several of the songs I want to show you guys. If you want to help out, let me know in the posts below and I'll give another entry with what I am looking for.