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(1,257 posts)have to go back to this version as my fave (which if I'm not mistaken I first heard about on DU).
Brother Buzz
(36,213 posts)lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)seems like he would play it on his home built stereo once or twice a week.
Chainfire
(17,305 posts)I was a young'un when the 1955 version was released.
It is said that that song led to Ford's death. It was an early huge success that he could never repeat and his son claims that it led to depression, alcoholism and death from liver failure.
Brother Buzz
(36,213 posts)Curiously, his professional career was launched in California, and like Buck Owens, he was setting trends in Country Music from California.
'A dinosaur Victrola listening to Buck Owens'. I'm guessing John Fogerty caught a bit of Tennessee Ernie Ford, too, like Shotgun Boogie
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I love them.
lark
(23,003 posts)I grew up with my dad singing this song. He loved to sing and this was one of his faves, so of course we loved it too!