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The contacts, techniques and equipment that juke-box and pin-ball machine operators had acquired prepared these hard-scrabble entrepreneurs for unexpected new roles as they built record companies and launched the careers of singers and bands, popularizing new music. In Dallas, Texas, Herb Rippa's Blue Bonnet Music Company typified the home-grown approach to making a record company. Rippa developed a keen sense of the local communities' musical tastes as he made his weekly rounds maintaining jukeboxes. In 1946 he heard the Lone Star Playboys, a string band in Waco, playing their adaptation of a Polish folk song, which they were calling the \"Westphalia Waltz\" Rippa heard a potential hit for the Germans, Czechs, Poles, and other eastern Europeans who populated southern Texas. Realizing that he could make a bigger profit if he sold his own records instead of buying them from jobbers in Dallas, Rippa decided to form a record company and release the \"Westphalia Waltz\". Working with Modern's Bahari brothers in California, Rippa's Blue Bonnet Music Company distributed the tune around south Texas. The Lone Star Playboys featured it on their daily broadcasts on WACO-Radio and at gigs all over the region, and Rippa's hunch paid off. Within a year, both Columbia and Capitol released the tune, crediting fiddler Cotton Collins as composer. Hank Thompson's 1955 release on Capitol brought Rippa's discovery to a national audience. 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Within a year, both Columbia and Capitol released the tune, crediting fiddler Cotton Collins as composer. Hank Thompson's 1955 release on Capitol brought Rippa's discovery to a national audience. 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