SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! (THAT CIGARETTE)
(Latest update on 14/05/2013)
| (Merle Travis/Tex Williams) | ||
| (o): | Tex Williams (1947) | label: Capitol |
| N°1 C&W. Record breaking hit for Capitol. Coauthor Merle Travis modelled this song on The Darktown Poker Club, a hit in 1914 for black vaudeville entertainer Bert Williams (no relation). See also: Nobody. | ||
| (c): | Hank Williams (1947) [as Fly Trouble], Johnny Bond (1960) [see note under Hot Rod Lincoln], Commander Cody (1973) , Eddy Mitchell (1974) [as Fume cette cigarette], Sammy Davis Jr. (1982) , Strangers (1985) [as Smoord 'n Sigaret (with a 'd')], Ed Kooyman & Herman Van Haeren (1986) [as Smoort Smoort Smoort], Willie Nelson (1996) , | |
| Tex died from lung cancer. | ||