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(NOW AND THEN THERE'S) A FOOL SUCH AS I

Created on 28/04/2003
Latest update on 21/03/2024

Artist: Hank Snow
Author: Bill Trader
Label: RCA
Year: 1952

"The Singing Ranger"; Canadian country singer from Nova Scotia.

Covers:

1953:: Jo Stafford
1953:: Bell Sisters
1953:: Robins
1953:: Grady Martin
1958:: Elvis Presley [n°1 UK]
1959:: Jim Reeves
1959:: Bill Haley
1960:: Petula Clark [hit Fr as Prends mon coeur]
1960s:: Bill Trader [author]
1964:: Davy Kaye [with Ritchie Blackmore on guitar]
1964:: Doris Day
1973:: Bob Dylan [also recorded a version with the Band during the Basement sessions in '67]
1979:: Rodney Crowell
1981:: Peabo Bryson
1989:: Residents
1998:: Don Walser
2009:: John Doe & The Sadies
2012:: Rick Holmstrom

Presley also cut his I'm Moving On and Dylan his Ninety Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street).

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Arnold Rypens
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