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Like numerous other folk songs, "In the Pines" was passed on from one generation and locale to the next by word of mouth. In 1925, a version of the song was recorded onto phonograph cylinder by a folk collector. This was the first documentation of "The Longest Train" variant of the song, which includes a verse about "The longest train I ever ...
Huddie William Ledbetter (/ ˈ h j uː d i / HYOO-dee; January 1888 [1] [2] or 1889 [3] – December 6, 1949), [1] better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk and blues singer notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced, including his renditions of "In the Pines", "Pick a Bale of Cotton", "Goodnight, Irene ...
"Black Girl" (trad.) (see "In the Pines") "Black Snake Moan" "Blind Lemon Blues" "the Blood Done Signed my Names (ain't you Glad)" "Blue Tail Fly" "Blues Around New York" "The Boll Weevil" "Bottle Up and Go" (a.k.a. "Borrow Love and Go") [2] "The Bourgeois Blues" [3] [4] "Bring a Little Water, Silvy" [5] (with Martha Ledbetter [6]) [7] "Bull ...
The album was produced by Bruce Callaway and David McComb, [2] recorded in a woolshed on a remote Western Australian farming property, owned by the McCombs' parents, on an eight-track machine for a grand total of $1190; the album notes record that $340 of this was spent on alcohol (beer, wine and vodka), which exceeded the $310 spent on food, the $300 on recording equipment hire and the $240 ...
The song was re-recorded with John McEuen on banjo and released in May 1985 from his compilation album The Best of Michael Martin Murphey. The re-release peaked at number 9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and at number 11 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart in mid-1985.
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Cathedral in the Pines, another 1930s song (along with There's a Gold Mine in the Sky) that Pat Boone recorded in 1957 following his success with Love Letters in the Sand [5] Last Night, (or Why Couldn't It Last Last Night), which was the theme song for the Joe Venuti Orchestra. [13] Writeen with Austen Croom-Johnson. The Moon is a Golden Coin ...
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