Musical Montage Musical Montage: Bill Hayes “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” July 4, 2022 Along with the miniseries in 1955 on the Disneyland TV series, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” on radios helped set off a Davy Crockett craze and there were three different versions that all charted on the Billboard charts, with the version by Bill Hayes hitting #1.