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