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The song was featured in Laurel and Hardy's 1937 film Way Out West. It was performed by Laurel and Hardy [5] with The Avalon Boys and featured a section sung in deep bass by Chill Wills, lip-synced by Stan Laurel in the film, [6] with the last two lines in falsetto (sung by Rosina Lawrence) after Ollie hit Stan on the head with a mallet. [7]
"On Top of Old Smoky" (often spelled "Smokey") is a traditional folk song of the United States. As recorded by the Weavers , the song reached the pop music charts in 1951. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 414.
The lyrics and title of the song are a tribute to R&B and soul singer Smokey Robinson. In the United States, Robinson's single " One Heartbeat " and ABC's "When Smokey Sings" were ranked in the Billboard 100 pop chart simultaneously for several weeks, including the week ending 3 October 1987, in which both songs ranked in the top 10.
Now in its fourth year, the Great Smokies Eco-Adventure experience doubles as a fundraiser for DLiA, funding vital research in the national park. This year’s Eco-Adventure April 21-23 will focus ...
In 1971, after publication of her book, “Barefoot in the Smokies,” Ella Costner was named Poet Laureate of the Smokies by the Tennessee legislature.
The index is a database of nearly 200,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.
The range is sometimes called the Smoky Mountains, and the name is commonly shortened to the Smokies. The Smokies are best known as the home of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which protects most of the range. The park was established in 1934 and, with over 11 million visits per year, is the most visited national park in the United States.
Of the song’s 12 verses that describe gifts presented to a “true love” between Christmas Day and the day before Epiphany, or Jan. 5, more than half are devoted to birds of one feather or ...