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Tom Dooley" (Roud 4192) is a traditional North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina by Tom Dula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley").
Inspiration for the folk song "Tom Dooley" Thomas C. Dula (June 23‚ 1844 – May 1, 1868) [1] [2] was a former Confederate soldier who was convicted of murdering ...
Thomas Anthony Dooley III (1927–1961), American humanitarian who worked in Laos and Vietnam; Thomas Dooley (born 1961), retired German-American footballer; Thomas E. Dooley, American media executive; Thomas P. Dooley, Judeo-Christian author, biomedical scientist, inventor; Tom Dooley (American football) (1934–2018), American football official
The Legend of Tom Dooley is a 1959 American Western film directed by Ted Post and starring Michael Landon, Jo Morrow, Jack Hogan, Richard Rust, Dee Pollock and Ken Lynch.It was based on the 90-year-old folk song "Tom Dooley", which had been inspired by the real-life case of convicted murderer Tom Dula.
The Kingston Trio was reissued on LP under the title of Tom Dooley with "Banua" and "Santy Anno" deleted. Some tracks from The Kingston Trio were reissued in 1961 by Capitol on Encores, a duophonic reissue of cuts from the first two albums. The Kingston Trio was released on CD by Capitol Records in 1992 paired with ...from the Hungry i. It has ...
Thomas Anthony Dooley III (January 17, 1927 – January 18, 1961) was an American physician who worked in Southeast Asia at the outset of American involvement in the Vietnam War. While serving as a physician in the United States Navy and afterwards, he became known for his humanitarian and anti-communist political activities up until his early ...
Frank Noah Proffitt (June 1, 1913 – November 24, 1965) [1] was an Appalachian old time banjoist who preserved the song "Tom Dooley" in the form we know it today and was a key figure in inspiring musicians of the 1960s and 1970s to play the traditional five-string banjo.
The poet Thomas Land died in 1912. The fact that he has been dead for so long means that the original lyrics are now public domain. But I don't know if people have actually been singing the original lyrics all this time, or creating different versions of them.