Artist: Flora Noles
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1926
The first On Top Of Old Smoky, released in 1925 on George Reneau (The Blind Musician of The Smoky Mountains) for Vocalion, follows another melody.
Covers:
Buell Kazee [with Carson Robison]
Riley Puckett [as Little Maumee]
Ernest Stoneman & his Dixie Mountaineers [as The Pretty Mohea]
Burl Ives [on debut album The Wayfaring Stranger as On Top Of Old Smoky]
Libby Holman [with Josh White as Old Smoky]
Hally Wood & Pete Seeger [as On Top Of Old Smoky for Alan Lomax's radio ballad opera The Martins And The Coys]
Minnie Pearl & Pee Wee King [idem]
Bob Archer [as Old Smokey]
Weavers [with Terry Gilkyson; n°2 US as On Top Of Old Smoky]
Burl Ives [with Percy Faith, idem, top 10 US]
Eddy Christiani [as Daar Ginds Bij Die Molen]
Elvis Presley [in film Follow That Dream]
Johnny & The Hurricanes [as Old Smokie; hit UK]
Dick Biondi [as The Pizza Song]
Tom Glazer [as On Top Of Spaghetti; top 20 US]
Rijk de Gooyer [as Een Bord Met Spaghetti]
Little Eva [as Old Smokey Locomotion]
Manuela [as Ich geh noch zur Schule, hit GER]
Al Fisher & Lou Marks [as Paul George John & Ringo (All The Way To The Bank)]
Ronny [as Kein Gold im Blue River; hit GER]
ABBA [in medley]
Greg Brown [as Old Smoky]
Mickey Newbury [recorded in 1970]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)