Who wrote the Jeannie Riley song which is covered on Trail of Tears?
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Trail of Tears (Billy Ray Cyrus album) Trail of Tears is the fourth studio album from country artist Billy Ray Cyrus. It was released on January 1, 1996, and two singles were released: the title track and "Three Little Words", which respectively peaked at number 69 and number 65 on the country charts. Also included is a cover of Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley PTA".
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Harper Valley PTA "Harper Valley PTA" is a country song written by Tom T. Hall that was a major international hit single for country singer Jeannie C. Riley in 1968. Riley's record sold over six million copies as a single. The song made Riley the first woman to top both the "Billboard" Hot 100 and the U.S. Hot Country Singles charts with the same song, a feat that would go unrepeated until Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" in 1981.
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City of New Orleans (song) "City of New Orleans" is a folk song written by Steve Goodman (and first recorded for Goodman's self-titled 1971 album), describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans on the Illinois Central Railroad's "City of New Orleans" in bittersweet and nostalgic terms.
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Shiver (Jamie O'Neal song) "Shiver" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music artist Jamie O'Neal. It was released in September 2001 as the third single and title track from the album "Shiver". The song reached #21 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written O'Neal, Lisa Drew and Shaye Smith.
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The Legend of Wooley Swamp "The Legend Of Wooley Swamp" is a song written, composed, and recorded by the Charlie Daniels Band. It was released in August 1980 as the second single from the album "Full Moon," which was later certified platinum.
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Call You Cowboy Call You Cowboy is an American Western song written by Brenn Hill. It is also the name of the album on which the song was initially released.
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Down to My Last Broken Heart "Down to My Last Broken Heart" is a song written by Chick Rains, and recorded by American country music artist Janie Fricke. It was released in November 1980 as the first single from the album "I'll Need Someone to Hold Me When I Cry". The song reached #2 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
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Kansas City Stomp Kansas City Stomp or Kansas City Stomps is an early jazz standard by Jelly Roll Morton. He recorded it in Richmond, Virginia on 18 July 1923 along with Wolverine Blues and Grandpa's Spells. "Kansas City Stomp" has been described as "one of his (Morton's) happiest pieces". Morton was inspired in naming it after playing at a bar named "Kansas City Bar" in Tijuana. It has nothing to do with Kansas City itself.
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No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" is a 1979 song recorded as a duet by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer.
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Jeanie Deans (song) "Jeanie Deans" is a song which celebrates Jeanie Deans, the heroine of Scott's novel, "The Heart of Midlothian". It was probably performed in music halls around the end of the 19th century as it is found in a 'broadsheet' of that period. Its musical accompaniment is not given.
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Cumberland Gap (folk song) "Cumberland Gap" is an Appalachian folk song that likely dates to the latter half of the 19th century and was first recorded in 1924. The song is typically played on banjo or fiddle, and well-known versions of the song include instrumental versions as well as versions with lyrics. A version of the song appeared in the 1934 book, "American Ballads and Folk Songs", by folk song collector John Lomax. Woody Guthrie recorded a version of the song at his Folkways sessions in the mid-1940s, and the song saw a resurgence in popularity with the rise of bluegrass and the American folk music revival in the 1950s. In 1957, the British musician Lonnie Donegan had a No. 1 UK hit with a skiffle version of "Cumberland Gap".
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Waterloo (Stonewall Jackson song) "Waterloo" was a number-one hit for country singer Stonewall Jackson in 1959. It was written by John D. Loudermilk and Marijohn Wilkin. The single was the most successful of Jackson's career, spending five weeks at number one on the U.S. country music chart. The B-side of "Waterloo", "Smoke Along the Track", reached number 24 on the country chart. "Waterloo" was also Jackson's only Top 40 hit, where it stayed on the chart for 16 weeks, peaking at number four on the "Billboard" Hot 100 pop chart.
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Song of the South (song) "Song of the South" is a song written by Bob McDill. First recorded by American country music artist Bobby Bare on his 1980 album "Drunk & Crazy", a version by Johnny Russell reached number 57 on the U.S. "Billboard" country chart in 1981. Another cover by Tom T. Hall and Earl Scruggs peaked at number 72 in 1982 from the album "Storyteller and the Banjo Man". A cover released in November 1988 by American country music group Alabama, from their album "Southern Star", reached number 1 on both the U.S. and Canadian country charts.
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Jean Shepard Ollie Imogene "Jean" Shepard (November 21, 1933 – September 25, 2016) was an American honky tonk singer-songwriter who pioneered for women in country music. Shepard released a total of 73 singles to the Hot Country Songs chart, one of which reached the No. 1 spot. She recorded a total of 24 studio albums between 1956–81, and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1955.
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Happy Trails (song) "Happy Trails" by Dale Evans, was the theme song for the 1940s and 1950s radio program and the 1950s television show starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Rogers, always sung over the end credits of the program. "Happy Trails" was released in 1952 as a 78 RPM and 45 RPM by Rogers and Evans with the Whippoorwills and Orchestra on RCA Victor Records. It was re-issued in 1957 as a 45 RPM record on RCA Victor/Bluebird. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
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Choo Choo Ch'Boogie "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" is a popular song written by Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, and Milt Gabler. The song was recorded in January 1946 by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five. It topped the R&B charts for 18 weeks from August 1946, a record only equalled by one other hit, "The Honeydripper." The record was one of Jordan's biggest ever hits with both black and white audiences, peaking at number seven on the national chart and provided an important link between blues and country music, foreshadowing the development of "rock and roll" a few years later.
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Jean DuShon Jean DuShon (born Anna Jean Harris, 16 August 1935) is an American jazz and R&B singer, and stage actor. She is best known for her recordings in the 1960s, including the first recording of the song "For Once in My Life".
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Somebody Else's Fire "Somebody Else's Fire" is a song written by Pat Bunch, Pam Rose and Mary Ann Kennedy, and recorded by American country music artist Janie Fricke. It was released in September 1985 as the second single and title track from the album "Somebody Else's Fire". The song reached #4 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
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Roses for Mama (album) Roses for Mama is the fifth album by country musician C. W. McCall, released on Polydor Records in 1977 (see 1977 in music). The album saw McCall singing several songs that were written by others, as opposed to his previous albums, which were written entirely by him and Chip Davis. In fact, only three songs were written by the McCall and Davis; these are "I Don't Know (and I Don't Care)", "The Gallopin' Goose" and "Old Glory". "The Battle of New Orleans" is a cover version of Johnny Horton's popular 1959 song.
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Straight Skirt "Straight Skirt " (later "Straight Skirts") is a song written by Mary Tarver in 1958 and published by Song Productions, BMI the same year. It was originally recorded by Gene Summers and his Rebels, a rockabilly band from Dallas, Texas and was first released in February 1958 by Jan Records #11-100. On March 8, 1958 Cash Box Magazine picked it as their Sleeper Of The Week. In Billboard Magazine's Reviews Of Pop Records they wrote: ""The artist is backed by a chorus and cheerful rockabilly support on this blues. The kid's might take to this"". They were right...within a few weeks of its release, Summers and his rockin' band of Rebels had their first big regional hit.
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Penny of Top Hill Trail Penny of Top Hill Trail is a silent 1921 Western comedy-drama film based on the 1919 novel by Belle Kanaris Maniates. It was directed by Arthur Berthelet and stars Bessie Love.
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Beautiful Lies (Jean Shepard song) "Beautiful Lies" is a song written by Jack Rhodes and recorded by American country music artist Jean Shepard. It was released in September 1955. The song reached number 4 on the "Billboard" Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes chart.