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Artist: Stuart Hamblen
Author: Stuart Hamblen
Label: RCA
Year: 1954
Covers:
Jan De Clerc, Alexander Pola & Henk Dorel [as Onze Flat]
Rosemary Clooney [n°1 US & UK]
Peter Kraus [as Das Alte Haus von Rocky Docky]
NRBQ [version inspiring Shaky]
Shakin' Stevens [n°1 UK as This Old House]
Real Estate [as House For Sale/This Ole House]
In the summer of '54 songwriter and ex presidential candidate Stuart Hamblen had a traumatic experience while trecking through the Rocky Mountains. He found a decomposing body in an abandonned cabin. That's when he wrote this song, to wipe away the memory. Not exactly the key formula for sure hits, still This Ole House became n°1 twice. No better therapy than royalties rolling in. Ten years later, he also wrote a spoof version as This Ole House Has Got To Go, this time for a freeway.
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)