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The single also peaked at #21 on the Hot Country Singles chart. [5] In Canada, it hit #1 [6] on the RPM top singles chart on December 7, 1964. The song's sole sung lyric is performed by a male chorus while the verses are a spoken-word, first-person account of a Western lawman and his friendship with a notorious gunfighter, known only as Ringo.
"It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" is a song written and recorded by Johnny Tillotson, which was a major hit for him in 1962.The song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country & Western song for 1962 but lost to Burl Ives' "Funny Way of Laughing."
The rotunda of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. This is a list of the 155 inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, as of 2024, counting groups as a single inductee. Of these, 16 inductions are solo female performers, and 1 induction is a female duet.
Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song with several lyric changes for the 1981 album Urban Chipmunk. Jamaican dancehall musician Sister Nancy performed a version on her 1982 album "One, Two" as "Coward of the Country." Her version also includes elements of the songs "Banana Boat Song" and "In the Ghetto." [32]
Beccy Cole was born as Rebecca Diane Thompson on 27 October 1972 in Glenelg. [1] [2] [3] Her mother is a country music singer, Carole Sturtzel, and her father, Jeff Thompson, was saxophonist for the Strangers.
The quintessential country western holiday dance. 22. LeAnn Rimes, "Put a Little Holiday In Your Heart" ... Related: Loretta Lynn's Best Lyrics. 47. Keith Whitley, "A Christmas Letter"
"Honky Tonk Song" is a country music song recorded by Webb Pierce. The song was co-written by Mel Tillis and Buck Peddy. It was released in 1957 on the Decca label. The song's lyrics tell of a man who rents a room in a cheap motel. He can't sleep, because the band in the joint downstairs keeps playing with a honky tonk beat, shaking his bed.
[7] [15] Higley's original lyrics are similar to those of the modern version of the song, but not identical. For instance, the original poem did not contain the words "on the range". [13] Ranchers, cowboys, and other western settlers adopted the song as a rural anthem and it spread throughout the United States in various forms. [16]