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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.
The Swamp Fox is a television miniseries produced by Walt Disney Studios and starring Leslie Nielsen as American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion. [1] [2] The show was based on the 1959 book Swamp Fox: The Life and Campaigns of General Francis Marion by Robert D. Bass. [3]
The city of Marion, Iowa holds an annual Swamp Fox Festival. [27] Marion County, South Carolina, and its county seat, the City of Marion, are named for Marion. The city features a statue of General Marion in the town square, and has a museum which includes many artifacts related to Francis Marion; the Marion High School mascot is the Swamp Fox.
In the 1959-1960 Walt Disney Studios miniseries The Swamp Fox, Whitfield played Oscar Marion, opposite Leslie Nielsen's Francis Marion. Oscar Marion was Francis Marion's man-servant, slave and friend. Whitfield sang the series' theme song, adding new verses in each of the eight installments to chronicle the characters' latest adventures.
The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song is a 1992 three disc set of Disney songs spanning eight decades that were originally recorded from 1928 to 1991.. The collection is composed of hit songs and familiar favorites from films, television shows and theme parks including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Bambi, Cinderella, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Beauty and the Beast, The ...
Swamp Fox (roller coaster), located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S. 157th Fighter Squadron, a unit of the South Carolina Air National Guard 169th Fighter Wing; Thames Valley Rugby Football Union, North Island, New Zealand; The mascot of Waycross College, Georgia, U.S. "Swamp Fox", a song by Southern Culture on the Skids from the 2004 ...
The groom disagreed with his wife, countering that his friend was "just joking." "But I don’t find anything funny about that," the bride insisted.
Stafford's first chart hit was "Swamp Witch", produced by Lobo, [6] which cracked the U.S. top 40 in July 1973. On March 2, 1974, his biggest hit, "Spiders & Snakes", peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 14 in the BBC Top 50 in the UK, selling over two million copies, earning a gold disc by the RIAA that month. [6]