The flip side is The John T. Scopes Trial. Vernon Dalhart was the most popular singer in America during the 1920s.
The biggest-selling Victor record of the 1920’s was not “My Blue Heaven,” by Gene Austin. It was “The Death of Floyd Collins,” by Vernon Dalhart, in 1925.
I knew a guy who worked at Victor in 1927. He gave out the stampers in the morning, and the girls would say, threateningly, “Give me 20964.” If they got that stamper, they could stamp all day without interruption, and make more money.