Tex Morton & "Sister" Dorrie - The Yellow Rose Of Texas (c.1948).

(Meade and Wikipedia - The earliest published version 1853 Christie&Plantation Melodies No.2 Published by Edwin Pearce Christy who Founded "Christy&Minstrels...The author is unknown;... Firth, Pond and Company of New York dated September 2, 1858, identifies the composer and arranger as "J.K."; its lyrics are "almost identical" to those in the handwritten manuscript, though it says it had been arranged and composed for the vaudeville performer Charles H. Brown.."Yellow Rose Of Texas" (The Center for American History at the University of Texas has an unpublished early handwritten version of the song, perhaps dating from the time of the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836. Recorded 25 April 1924 by Ernest Thompson 23 February 1926 by Sam Long as "Echoes Of The Ozarks Circa May 1927 by De Costa Woltz&Southern Broadcasters 28 September 1927 by North Carolina Cooper Boys as "Red Rose of Texas and Thousands of Others From A Radio Transcription Circa 1948 (w/crackles & hisses)...Tex Morton (yodelling/vcl solo/vcl duet/gt) & "Sister" Dorrie (vcl duet)...TEX (Born Robert William Lane in Nelson NZ (1916 - 1983)...And..."SISTER" DORRIE (Born Dorothy May Ricketts in Warragul VICTORIA 1910 - 1993)..."Sister" Dorrie was the 1st Female to Record Country Music in Australia (13th March 1941 Duet with Tex "Everything But You")...Tex had a dispute with Columbia Records and left in 1943 and made few Recordings until 1949