Artist: Pee Wee King & his Golden West Cowboys
Author: Cowbow Copas/Pee Wee King/Redd Stewart
Label: RCA Victor
Year: 1947
Vocal by Redd Stewart. Introduced on a radio station in Louisville, KY.
Covers:
Cowboy Copas [oldest recording (King), but released after Pee Wee's]
Erskine Hawkins [hit R&B; Patti Page used this arrangement]
Stick McGhee & his Buddies [as Tennessee Waltz Blues]
Patti Page [n°1 US, n°2 C&W]
Alma Cogan [n°1 Sweden]
Sam Moore [on a solo album, released 30 years after]
Yvette Horner [in Nashville]
Eva Cassidy [posthumously released on cd Imagine]
Chieftains with Tom Jones [in medley with Tennessee Mazurka]
An & Jan [as Hollandse Wals]
Official State song of Tennessee since 1965.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)