WCMM Pee Wee King transcript

[accordion music]
- Pee Wee King's real name was Frank Kuczynski. He was a Polish boy from Abrams, Wisconsin. His instrument, the accordion, reflected his Midwestern heritage, but in the 1930s, he organized a band called the Golden West Cowboys. He toured for a while with the Hollywood singing cowboy Gene Autry. He added a touch of the West to the business, and in 1948, along with his lead singer Redd Stewart, he wrote a song that made country music and popular music history; this was "The Tennessee Waltz." 
§ ...and the Tennessee Waltz § 
§ Now I know just how much... § 
It was an international hit and an example of the crossover phenomenon that later dominated the music world, the movement of one genre of music into another. 
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