[Nancy, May 28, 1955. Click for a larger view.]
“The Ballad of Davy Crockett” first aired on television on October 27, 1954. Recordings followed in 1955. From late March through most of April of that year, Bill Hayes’s version was the number one song in the United States. The Disney movie Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier was released on May 28, 1955. And Ernie Bushmiller was keeping up a fad.
Wikipedia has an article about the song and the “Crockett craze.” The details in this post are therein.
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Gosh, this is so me. I was 6 in 1955, and always wanted to be Davy Crockett for Halloween, and just generally sported a coonskin cap on most days. (This kind of was a step forward, since my family was intent on dressing me as a cowboy previously)
The Zeitgeist in motion! I was occasionally a cowboy in youth (early '60s), but by then the Crockett craze had passed.
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/06/30
Nice find!
still featured in 1966
https://comicskingdom.com/hi-and-lois/1966-07-31
Remarkable!
I just remembered a Peanuts cartoon where Schroeder has a coonskin cap and Charlie has a shirt with a stripe. They start out arguing, and then pick on each other's cap and shirt. This was years before I knew the phrase ad hominem attack.
Ha! If you take a look at the Peanuts link a few comments back and go forward and back, you can find a series of strips with Davy Crockett caps, though not the one you’re thinking of.
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