Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima explained

Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima
Type:single
Artist:Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
B-Side:You Don't Care What Happens to Me
Recorded:April 20, 1945
Studio:CBS, Hollywood, California
Genre:Western swing
Label:Okeh
Prev Title:Smoke on the Water
Prev Year:1945
Next Title:Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight
Next Year:1945

"Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima" is a 1945 song by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. The song was Bob Wills' second number one on the Juke Box Folk charts, spending a single week at number one and a total of eleven weeks on the chart.[1] The B-side of "Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima", a song entitled, "You Don't Care What Happens To Me" peaked at number five on the same chart.

Later in 1945, Sons of the Pioneers, peaked at number four on the Juke Box Folk Record chart with their version.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

    . The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 392, 395.