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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)
Artist: Vernon Dalhart
Author: Rev. Andrew Jenkins
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1927
Also for OKeh, Columbia and Victor.
Covers:
Sons Of The Pioneers [as Billie The Kid and in '64 along with David Gates and Glen Campbell]
Tex Ritter [on his album Children's Songs And Stories By Cowboy Tex Ritter, the blueprint for Jim Dickinson's Free Beer Tomorrow album]
Jimmy Driftwood [on concept album How The West Was Won]
Jim Dickinson [as Ballad Of Billy And Oscar on cd Free Beer Tomorrow (see under Tex Ritter)]
Song about William H. Bonney, alias Billy The Kid, challenging Jesse James as top outlaw of The West. He operated in New Mexico in the 1870s and was killed by legendary sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881.
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)