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In 1947 the Joseph A. Ferko String Band made it's first recording with PALDA Record Company. In the summer of 1955, they break into Billboards top 100 with their version of "Alabama Jubilee" topping out at #14 and "You Are My Sunshine" #44. The week of July 16th 1955, "Alabama Jubilee" sold more copies than Fats Domino's "Ain't That A Shame" and Sammy Davis Jr.'s "That Old Black Magic. The Ferko String Band still plays these songs today with very little changes from William "Curley" Connor's, then Music Director, original arrangements. While "The Miracile on 34th Street" was being filmed, The Joseph A. Ferko String Band was marching in the Thanksgiving Day Parade of 1952. The grand marshall that year was "The Great One" Jackie Gleason. Upon seeing the elaborate costumes and hearing what he called "interesting music", he booked the band for 2 appearences on "The Jackie Gleason Show" . As fate would have it, the Ferko String Band also appears in "The Miracile on 34th Street" in two parts of this classic Christmas movie. Ferko was the first band to perform in the Republic of Cuba (1959), and has appeared on NBC's "Today Show" and ABC's "Good Morning America".

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