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"Phantom 309" is a song written by Tommy Faile and released as a single by Red Sovine in 1967. It was a minor hit, peaking at number nine on the Billboard Magazine Country chart. The lyrics are spoken, rather than sung.
Phantom 309 is an album by country music singer Woodrow Wilson Sovine, better known as Red Sovine, released by Starday Records in 1967 and re-released by Power Pak Records (the budget division of Gusto Records) in 1975 with the same track listing and album art. [1] There was also a compilation CD of the same name issued by Prism Leisure in 2001.
Sovine's version of the song spent six weeks atop the country charts. Other truck-driving country hits followed, including; " Phantom 309 ", a tale of a hitchhiker who hops a ride from a trucker who turns out to be the ghost of a man who died years ago giving his life to save a school bus full of children from a horrible collision with his rig.
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"Phantom 309" Red Sovine: 1964: The song's protagonist, a hitchhiker, meets the ghost of a truck driver who was killed when he swerved his semi-trailer truck into a ditch to avert a potentially deadly collision with a bus full of teenagers. "Plastic Flowers on the Highway" Drive-By Truckers: 2001 "Push Back The Hands" They Might Be Giants: 2018 ...
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Tommy Faile (September 15, 1928 – August 2, 1998) was an American songwriter and singer best known for composing "Phantom 309", singing "The Legend of the Brown Mountain Lights", his deep voice and comic onstage banter.