details for I Love Your Pizza - Homer & Jethro

Recorded:
• late 1960 (album version)
• circa February, 1961 (single version)

Available on (*):
• 1960 LP Songs My Mother Never Sang (RCA Victor LPM/LSP-2286, late 1960; contains outtakes)
• 1961 45 rpm single Are You Lonesome Tonight (RCA Victor 47-7852, early 1961)

Parody of:
• Across The Wide Missouri - Hugo Winterhalter (1951) (itself an adaptation of "Shenandoah")

Topics (not including words that are part of the title):
• food

Alternate versions:
• the album and single versions are different recordings from different sessions - the album has outtakes from the session, while the single is performed straight through

general information about Homer & Jethro

Real name:
• Henry Haynes (Homer)
• Kenneth Burns (Jethro)

Born:
• July 29, 1917 (Homer)
• March 10, 1923 (Jethro)

Died:
• August 7, 1971 (Homer)
• February 4, 1989 (Jethro)

Group formed:
• 1932

Group disbanded:
• 1971 (due to Homer's death)

interesting facts (click to see playlist of show on which fact was mentioned, if applicable):
• They worked together for almost 40 years, except the four years they spent in the Army.

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