Background
Elton Britt was born James Elton Baker, in Marshall, Arkansas, a small town in Searcy County, United States.
musician singer-songwriter yodeler
Elton Britt was born James Elton Baker, in Marshall, Arkansas, a small town in Searcy County, United States.
He recorded over 600 sides and 60 albums for Radio Corporation of America and other labels in more than a 30-year span, and is best known for such hit songs (several of which he wrote or co-wrote) as "Someday (You"ll Want Maine to Want You)," "Detour," "Chime Bells," "Maybe I"ll Cry Over You," "Pinto Pal," and the million-selling wartime hit "There"s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere".The recording had sold a million discs by 1944 and it was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. A singer, bandleader, radio and television performer, songwriter and standard-setting yodeler, he starred in at least two films in the late 1940s, and had hit records as late as 1968 with "The Jimmie Rodgers Blues". He died on June 22, 1972, five days before his 59th birthday, due to a heart attack. The song "Uranium Fever" is featured in the open-world video game, Fallout 4, on the in-game radio.