"The Ballad of Archie Who" vintage 45 and Archie Manning buttons, 1970
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"The Ballad of Archie Who" vintage 45 and Archie buttons, 1970. Ole Miss, University of Mississippi. Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
From HottyToddy.com: The following exerpt from the Sept. 14, 1970 edition of Sport Illustrated Describes the phenomenon known as “Archie Fever.”
“Began last fall when, as a junior, Manning passed and ran the Rebels to an 8-3 record — including an upset of Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl. First red-and-blue buttons inscribed “Archie” or “Archie’s Army” blossomed like Dogwood all over the Ole Miss campus in Oxford. Then some Tennessee fans came up with “Archie Who?” buttons, and the craze was on.
After Archie and the Rebles wiped out Tennesseee 38-0 in Jackson, Ole Miss came back with “You Know Damn Well Who” buttons. Lamont Wilson, a postal clerk in Magnolia, Miss., took the tune of Johnny Cash’s Folsome Prison Blues and hastily worked up a ditty entitle the Balad of Archie Who. Recorded on the Hotty Toddy label by a guitar-twanging group known as the rebel Rousers, the song sold 35,000 copies quicker than you can whistle Dixie, and young Manning became a sort of instant folk hero.”
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