Mercury
71997 (original) USA, 1962
Words & Music by: Side A – Lorene Mann; Side B – Merle Kilgore
Musicians: Rex Allen (vocals) with the Merry Melody Singers and unknown musicians of the Nashville A-Team
Recording sessions: Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, TN, Apr. 18, 1962
Highest chart positions: US #17, US Country #4
Words & Music by: Side A – Lorene Mann; Side B – Merle Kilgore
Musicians: Rex Allen (vocals) with the Merry Melody Singers and unknown musicians of the Nashville A-Team
Recording sessions: Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, TN, Apr. 18, 1962
Highest chart positions: US #17, US Country #4
The title song
would be a very unlikely hit song in this millennium with its politically
incorrect words. Things were a bit different 50 years ago, when Rex Allen got
his second biggest hit with this one.
Allen’s
biggest hit was “Crying in the Chapel” (US #8, US Country #4 in 1953).
List
price: Very Good + is $5, Near Mint $10
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