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Each of the six songs with the title "Tulsa" is a completely different composition.) "Tulsa Baby" – written by Dave Stogner and Jim Childress, recorded by Dave Stogner, 1950, and by him again in 1951. [452] "Tulsa Baby" – written by Louie Walker, recorded by the Miller Brothers, 1955. Later recorded by Deke Dickerson, 1998. [453]
The Tulsa sound is a popular musical style that originated in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the second half of the twentieth century. [1] It is a mix of blues , blues rock , country , rock and roll and swamp pop sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The song's lyrics tell of a traveling man who detours to a romance in a motel and ends up never returning home. [4] The twists of the song's lyrics (the protagonist, just 24 hours from reaching home, falls in love with a woman when he stops driving for the night, leaving his current partner twisting in the wind) are echoed in the music's tonal ambiguity, a common feature of Bacharach's ...
Pages in category "Songs about Tulsa, Oklahoma" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Ballads and folk songs of the Southwest: more than 600 titles, melodies, and texts collected in Oklahoma. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Savage, William W., Jr. Singing Cowboys and All That Jazz: A Short History of Popular Music in Oklahoma. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. ISBN 0-8061-2085-1
"Take Me Back to Tulsa" is a Western swing standard song. Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan added words and music to the melody of the traditional fiddle tune "Walkin' Georgia Rose" in 1940. [3] The song is one of eight country music performances selected for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock & Roll". [4]
Swingin' Live at the Church in Tulsa is a 2024 album by American blues musician Taj Mahal, recorded live before an audience in The Church Studio. [2] It has received positive reviews from critics. Swingin' Live at the Church in Tulsa won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album .
"Tulsa Time" is a song written by Danny Flowers, and recorded by American country music artist Don Williams. It was released in October 1978 as the first single from the album Expressions . It was Williams' eighth number one on the country chart, spending a single week at number one and eleven weeks in the top 40. [ 1 ]