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His famous country single was "The Lumberjack," an international hit that sold over 1.5 million copies. In 1965, it peaked at number 5 on the Billboard country charts in the USA. This success was such a phenomenon that he was nicknamed "Mr. Lumberjack."
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Music Library contains a collection of approximately 3,500 19th century vocal and instrumental titles of American ...
Michael Palin performs "The Lumberjack Song", with Connie Booth as his "best girl.". The common theme was of an average man (usually Michael Palin, but in the City Center and Hollywood Bowl versions by Eric Idle) who expresses dissatisfaction with his current job (as a barber, weatherman, pet shop owner, etc.) and then announces, "I didn't want to be [the given profession].
A lumberjack c. 1900. Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.
Industrial folk music, industrial folk song, industrial work song or working song is a subgenre of folk or traditional music that developed from the 18th century, particularly in Britain and North America, with songs dealing with the lives and experiences of industrial workers.
"The Lumberjack" is a single by Canadian country music artist Hal Willis. The song peaked at number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart. [ 1 ] It also reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the United States.
19th-century hymns (1 C, 99 P) Pages in category "19th-century songs" ... Pages in category "19th-century songs" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of ...
A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a form of ... plumbers, electricians, lumberjacks, cowboys and miners. ... and 19th-century field holler music, ...