The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

Artist: Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Author: Bascom Lunsford
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1928

About moonshine, quite a popular brand in Lunsford's North Carolina during prohibition. As a lawyer he defended moonshiners. A soft drink took its name. Lunsford sold his rights for $25 to Scotty Wiseman to finance a trip home from Chicago to Asheville, NC, where he organized his mountain folk festival. He got his rights back from Scotty the day he retired.

Covers:

1935:: Scott Wiseman & Bascom Lunsford
1939:: Lulu Belle & Scotty [with the same Scott Wiseman who bought this song from Lunsford]
1940s:: Uncle Dave Macon
1947:: Grandpa Jones
1959:: Stanley Brothers
1959:: Clancy Brothers
1963:: Roy Acuff
1968:: Commander Cody [demo]
1969:: Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
1969:: Glen Campbell
1972:: Willie Nelson [hit in '81 as Mountain Dew]
1973:: Eric Weissberg

OLD MOUNTAIN DEW

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