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"Tom Dooley" is a traditional North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina by Tom Dula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley"). One of the more famous murder ballads, a popular hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, was in the top 10 on the ...
Thomas C. Dula (June 23‚ 1844 – May 1, 1868) [1][2] was a former Confederate soldier who was convicted of murdering Laura Foster. National publicity from newspapers such as The New York Times turned Dula's story into a folk legend. Although Laura was murdered in Wilkes County, North Carolina, Dula was tried, convicted, and hanged in ...
Stonewall Jackson singles chronology. "Life to Go". (1958) " Waterloo ". (1959) "Smoke Along the Track". (1959) " Waterloo " was a number-one hit (country chart) for country singer Stonewall Jackson in 1959. It was written by John D. Loudermilk and Marijohn Wilkin.
In her memoir And A Voice To Sing With, singer and activist Joan Baez recalled that "Traveling across the country with my mother and sisters, we heard the commercial songs of the budding folk boom for the first time, the Kingston Trio's 'Tom Dooley' and 'Scotch and Soda.' Before I turned into a snob and learned to look down upon all commercial ...
G.B. and Henry Whitter were the first to record the folk song Tom Dooley— based on the capture of Dula— in 1929. [2] G.B. learned to play music at a young age, and was an accomplished fiddler by his early teens.
Francis Moreland Warner (April 5, 1903 – February 27, 1978) was an American folk song collector, singer, musician, and YMCA executive. He and his wife Anne Warner (born Elizabeth Anne Locher, October 18, 1905 – April 26, 1991) collected and preserved many previously unpublished traditional song versions from the eastern United States, including "Tom Dooley", "He's Got the Whole World in ...
"Tom Dooley" 1 "Raspberries, Strawberries" 1959 70 Sold Out "The Tijuana Jail" 12 Non-album single "M.T.A." 15 At Large "A Worried Man" 20 Here We Go Again! "CooCoo-U" 98 Non-album single "El Matador" 1960 32 Sold Out "Bad Man Blunder" 37 String Along "Everglades" 60 "You're Gonna Miss Me" 1961 — Goin' Places "Coming from the Mountains ...
Physician, author. Thomas Anthony Dooley III (January 17, 1927 – January 18, 1961) was an American physician who worked in Southeast Asia at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War. While serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, he became known for his humanitarian and anti-communist political activities ...