This song, written by Hoyt, was a hit for The Kingston Trio. I didn’t even know he wrote until I did a bit of research this morning.
Today was Hoyt’s birthday. He would have been 74.
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Greenback Dollar: Hoyt Axton
March 25, 2012Tom Dooley: The Kingston Trio
June 2, 2010Released in 1958, this song won the Grammy for Best Country and Western Performance at the first Grammy awards. At the time, no folk music category existed.
The next year, largely as a result of The Kingston Trio and Tom Dooley, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences instituted a folk category and the Trio won the first Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for its second studio album At Large.
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