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Sonny Osborne, one half of the Osborne Brothers duo with his brother Bobby Osborne for many years (1952-2005), died October 24th at age 83, 5 days before his 84th birthday / Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original album
Sonny Osborne, one half of the Osborne Brothers duo with his brother Bobby Osborne for many years (1952-2005), died October 24th at age 83, 5 days before his 84th birthday // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original single
Sonny Osborne, one half of the Osborne Brothers duo with his brother Bobby Osborne for many years (1952-2005), died October 24th at age 83, 5 days before his 84th birthday / * - Locklin first recorded it in Nov 1949, but it was not a hit till summer 1958 {C&W #5}
Sonny Osborne, one half of the Osborne Brothers duo with his brother Bobby Osborne for many years (1952-2005), died October 24th at age 83, 5 days before his 84th birthday / refers to a real person named Joseph Clark, a Kentucky mountaineer who was born in 1839 and murdered in 1885
PERSONNEL: Amos Easton (as Bumble Bee Slim) (vocals); Will "Casey Bill" Weldon (steel guitar); Black Bob Hudson (piano) / Click on the Link above, to view the original 10" record.
The band's name comes from "The 400 Unit", a colloquial name for the psychiatric ward of Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital in Florence, Alabama. / The song '[Driver 8' refers to the Southern Crescent, a passenger train operated by the Southern Railroad until 1979, and continues today (with fewer stops) as the Amtrak Crescent.
Although Alexander wrote this song, and Steve Alaimo had a hit with it in 1962, and many other artists recorded it afterwards, oddly Alexander did not record his own version until 1975, a decent-sized hit for him. Click on the Link above, to view all 52 versions.
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6:54
Artist:
Sarah Shook [Billed as 'Sarah Shook and the Disarmers']