Steel Guitar Rag/Bud Cox 1946

Rare, only known home recording of Burnett Virgil Cox (Bud Cox) hot guitarist of DuBois and Beaver County, PA in the early 1949s. Steel Guitar Rag played on a Gibson parlor guitar, and a home record machine. Tragically died at 27. This rare recording from Beaver County history has been inducted into the Beaver County …

San Antonio Rose/Bud Cox ’46

Bud Cox haled from DuBois, PA, born 1925, youngest of 9. Leader of his family band, the Pardus Ramblers at 17, played regularly on DuBois radio, moved to Beaver County, PA early 40’s, married my mother Betty Anne (17), they were some of the best musicians in this area. Doing their best with guitars of …

Hail, Pennsylvania!

Until 1990 the song served as the official song for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. “Hail, Pennsylvania!” is a song written by Edgar M. Dilley (Class of 1897) as a submission to a University of Pennsylvania alumni committee-sponsored contest to write a song to the tune of “God Save the Tsar!“, the national anthem of Imperial Russia, by Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov. Edgar …