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"The Ballad of Thunder Road" is a song performed and co-written by actor Robert Mitchum in 1958, with music by composer Jack Marshall. [2] It was the theme song of the movie Thunder Road . [ 2 ] The song made the Billboard Hot 100 twice, in 1958 and 1962, and while it never peaked higher than number 62, it racked up 21 total weeks in the chart.
"Thunder Road" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It is the opening track on his breakthrough album Born to Run . While never released as a single, "Thunder Road" is nevertheless considered one of Springsteen's greatest songs and one of the top rock songs in history.
Thunder Road is a 1958 American drama–crime film directed by Arthur Ripley and starring Robert Mitchum, who also wrote the story. The supporting cast features Gene Barry , Jacques Aubuchon , Keely Smith , James Mitchum , Sandra Knight , and Peter Breck .
Bruce Springsteen tried to settle a debate over the correct lyrics to his classic song "Thunder Road" while appearing on "The Tonight Show."
The "Thunder Road" manuscript is poised to sell for somewhere between $40,000 and $60,000. Some fans might consider that a steal: In 2018, handwritten lyrics to "Born to Run" sold for $250,000.
The section of SR 33 between Knoxville and Tazewell, along with US 25E between Tazewell and Middlesboro, Kentucky, was an inspiration for the song The Ballad of Thunder Road. In the song, a moonshiner runs illegal whiskey from Kentucky to Knoxville on this route. [2]
In the jaw-dropping opening sequence of “Thunder Road,” Officer Jim Arnaud (Jim Cummings), a uniformed cop in his early 30s, saunters up to the front of a church to speak at his mother’s ...
Tennessee State Route 33, part of the route inspiring the moonshine song, "The Ballad of Thunder Road" Thunder Road, a former turbo-simulator ride at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; Thunder Road, the first original mobile comic, by Steven Sanders; National Route 13 (Vietnam), a nickname given by US forces during the Vietnam War