TRAGEDY

Created on 03/05/2016
Latest update on 17/05/2021

Artist: Thomas Wayne
Author: Fred Burch/Gerald Nelson
Label: Fernwood
Year: 1959

Top 5 US. Full name: Thomas Wayne Perkins, brother of Luther Perkins, guitar player with Johnny Cash. Produced by Scotty Moore.

Covers:

1960:

Psychos [instr.]

1961:

Fleetwoods [top 10 US]

1961:

Brenda Lee

1963:

Johnny Tillotson

1963:

Anita Kerr Singers

1969:

Brian Hyland

1969:

Floyd Cramer

1971:

Paul McCartney & Wings [outtake Ram sessions, extra track on Red Rose Speedway Remastered ('18)]

1974:

Jerry Garcia [outtake Compliments sessions]

1976:

Ronnie Dove

1993:

Danny Gatton

2016:

Peter Wolf [the Tragedy he recorded in '10 with Shelby Lynne is his own composition]

Not to be confused with the Bee Gees song.

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