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"Polk Salad Annie" is a 1968 song written and performed by Tony Joe White. [1] Its lyrics describe the lifestyle of a poor rural Southern girl and her family. Traditionally, the term to describe the type of food highlighted in the song is polk or poke salad, a dish of cooked greens made from pokeweed . [ 2 ]
Ford v Ferrari (titled Le Mans '66 in some European countries) is a 2019 sports action drama film directed by James Mangold and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Two soundtrack albums for the film were released by Hollywood Records on November 15, 2019.
In 1963, Ford Motor Company Vice President Lee Iacocca proposes to Henry Ford II to boost their car sales by purchasing Ferrari, dominant in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.Owner Enzo Ferrari uses Ford's offer to secure a deal with Fiat that allows him to retain ownership of the firm's racing team, Scuderia Ferrari, and insults Ford and his whole company.
Oct. 29—Tony Joe White, the Wolfe City-ex who is now the head football coach at Birmingham-Southern, had a chance encounter once with Barry Switzer. They rode on the same elevator together.
Tony Joe White (July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018), nicknamed the Swamp Fox, [1] was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but which was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970.
Black and White was re-released on by Movieplay/Intermusic from Portugal in 1993 with a different cover and a different title ("Polk Salad Annie"). It was reissued in 1997 by Warner Bros. containing two additional songs - "Ten More Miles To Louisiana" (Tony Joe White) and "Georgia Pines" (by Buddy Buie and John Rainey Adkins ).
A version of the song with rewritten lyrics was used in Honda television commercials in 2017. [19] In 2023, the song appeared in the fourth episode of the second season of the FX television series The Bear. [20] In late 2024, the song is the backdrop for a Coca-Cola TV advertisement featuring people travelling home for the holiday season. [21]
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