🦌 On This Day in Music History – May 28, 1955 America goes wild for Davy Crockett! In the spring of 1955, the whole country had Crockett Fever. And leading the charge was actor and singer Fess Parker, whose rendition of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" became an unstoppable force on the American pop charts. Billboard reported on this day that if all the versions of the song were combined—Fess Parker’s original, along with covers by Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bill Hayes, and others—over eighteen million