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"Cotton-Eyed Joe" (also known as "Cotton-Eye Joe") (Roud 942) is a traditional American country folk song popular at various times throughout the United States and Canada, although today it is most commonly associated with the American South. The song is mostly identified with the 1994 Rednex version, which became popular worldwide.
"Cotton Eye Joe" is a song by the Swedish Eurodance group Rednex, released in August 1994 by Jive and Zomba as the lead single from their debut studio album, Sex & Violins (1995). Based on the traditional American folk song " Cotton-Eyed Joe ", it blends the group's Eurodance style with traditional American instruments like the banjo [ 5 ] and ...
Jock Jams, Volume 3 was the third album in the Jock Jams compilation album series.. It contained the single "The Jock Jam" (or "ESPN Presents the Jock Jam"), which peaked at #31 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 copies.
The album was a commercial success, including the hit dance single "Cotton Eye Joe". For its US release, the album was retitled Cotton Eye Joe (Sex & Violins) and received new cover art – presumably due to the possible offensive nature of the original artwork, which depicted a person urinating into a chamber pot with the band members' faces.
2009: Cotton Eye Joe Show (Band name, when the Rednex lineup Ljungberg, Lundström and Sylsjö lost the rights to perform under the Rednex trademark) 2012: Rednex NZ (An entire separate created Rednex group to perform in Australia and New Zealand consisting of Murphy, Sibbald and Roggen) [ 16 ]
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British newspaper Lennox Herald noted that "Old Pop in an Oak" is a "similar sounding song" to their previous single, "Cotton Eye Joe". [2] A reviewer from Manila Standard described it as "techno-pop fun". [3] Pan-European magazine Music & Media viewed it as a "C&W/dance mixture". [4]
The Inbred with Rednex extended play contains seven songs, three of them, "Cotton Eye Joe", "Old Pop in an Oak" and "Wish You Were Here", which had been previously released as singles. While "Cotton Eye Joe" and "Wish You Were Here" only appear in video form on the album, "Old Pop in an Oak" appears in both, video and audio form.