If it weren’t for a bumpy road in east Nashville, one of the most famous hooks in country music – the “oom-pa-pa-mow-mow” in the Oak Ridge Boys’ “Elvira” – might never have happened.
‘Elvira’ singers Oak Ridge Boys giddyup to Gainesville Feb. 2
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