What It Was, Was Football
date: label: release date
content: 1953
name: label: recording artist
content: Griffith, Andy
label: manufacturer
content: Capitol
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Deacon Andy Griffith. side 1: What It Was, Was Football (part 1); side 2: What It Was, Was Footbal (part 2) (Capitol 2693).<br>78 rpm.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Released on November 14, 1953, Andy Griffith's "What it Was, Was Football" is a monologue describing a college football game from the perspective of a country preacher who attends the game by accident and is puzzled by the spectacle. The record would sell about 800,000 copes in its first year, becoming instrumental in launching Griffith's career. It has been reproduced in <i>MAD</i> magazine and was made into a film short in 1997.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles, Hollywood
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Barr, Steven C.. Almost Complete 78 RPM Record Dating Catalog (II)
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eula W. Wake in Memory of Harry Wake
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0656.536
label: accession number
content: 1981.0656
label: maker number
content: 2693
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0656.536
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in; x 25.4 cm