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The song, later recorded by many artists including Hank Snow and Elvis Presley, became a country classic. [7] Tex Morton 1941, Hank Williams 1942, Elvis Presley 1956, Hank Snow 1959, Ralph DeMarco (1959 - #10 in Canada [8]), Walter Brennan 1960, Dave Dudley 1965, Johnny Cash 1975, Everly Brothers & Garrison Keillor 1988, Pat Boone 1994, Burton Cummings (as Elvis) 1994, Alabama 2006.
In the US, "Out in the Country" peaked at number 11 on the US adult contemporary chart, and number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 the weeks of October 17 and 24, 1970. [3] [4] [5] Outside the US, the record reached number 9 in Canada. [6] Released in the first year of Earth Day, "Out in the Country" was an early environmental advocacy song.
Song based on a real-life drunk driving crash [9] and the impact of a subsequent organ donation. "Lights on the Hill" Slim Dusty: 1973: The song describes a trucker driving at night with a heavy load being blinded by lights on the hill, hitting a pole, falling of the edge of a road and realising his impending death. "Limousine" Brand New: 2005
The song was covered with slightly reworked lyrics by Tom Waits in July 1975 at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles and released in October on his third album, the pseudo-live double-LP Nighthawks at the Diner, under the title "Big Joe and Phantom 309". (To establish mood for the studio audience, Waits refers to the studio as "Raphael's Silver ...
Associated with the environmentalist musical counterculture of the previous decade, animal rights songs of the 1970s were influenced by the passage of animal protection laws and the 1975 book Animal Liberation. [1] Paul McCartney has cited John Lennon's Bungalow Bill, released in 1968, as among the first animal rights songs. [2]
In that role, he recorded his own song, "Eli's Blue", a lament about a man who accidentally shot his dog. Ferguson wrote several other songs, including the million seller, "Carroll County Accident", [5] first recorded by Porter Wagoner. In 1969 it received a Country Music Award for the "Song of the Year".
In the book The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Tom Roland wrote that the final verse, with its theme of tolerance towards gay people, showed a shift in political beliefs for the typically conservative country music audience. [5] In 2019, Rolling Stone ranked "Feed Jake" No. 37 on its list of the 40 saddest songs in country music. [6]
The earliest written version of the song was published in John Lomax's Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads in 1910. It would first be recorded by Carl T. Sprague in 1926, and was released on a 10" single through Victor Records. [9] The following year, the melody and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag.