RIGHT OR WRONG

Created on 22/12/2006
Latest update on 13/04/2024

Artist: Gene Rodemich's Orch.
Author: Arthur Sizemore/Haven Gillespie/Paul Biese
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1921

With Frankie Trumbauer on sax. Coauthor Haven Gillespie also wrote By The Sycamore Tree, You Go To My Head, That Lucky Old Sun and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.

Covers:

1921:

Mike Markel

1925:

New Orleans Jazz Band

1927:

Sol Hoopii

1928:

Goofus Five

1928:

California Ramblers

1929:

Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers [who's vocal style influenced Milton Brown and Bob Wills]

1936:

Bob Wills

1936:

Milton Brown & His Brownies

1938:

Riverside Ramblers

1964:

Ronnie Dove

1965:

Willie Nelson [and in '09 with Asleep At The Wheel]

1970:

Merle Haggard

1975:

Billie Jo Spears

1981:

Johnny Van Zant Band

1983:

George Strait [on lp Right Or Wrong and n°1 C&W in '84]

1990:

Leon Redbone

1998:

Guy Forsyth & the Bad Livers [in film The Newton Boys]

1999:

Asleep At The Wheel [with Reba McEntire and in '09 with Willie Nelson]

2014:

Gregory Page

Not to be confused, neither with Wanda Jackson's C&W hit, covered by Ronnie Dove, nor with Mildred Bailey's ('37), covered by Sarah Vaughan. The one by The Crickets ('65) was written by Jackie DeShannon/Sharon Sheeley while Keith Sykes wrote Rosanne Cash's ('79).

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