EPISODE · Aug 13, 2012 · 1 MIN
100 Years of Woody Guthrie – Oklahoma Hills
from Sound Beat · host Syracuse University Library
Woody wrote this tune and his cousin Jack recorded it in 1945. It went to the top of the charts…a feat that a Woody Guthrie record never matched. But it’s Woody’s version, not Jack’s, that serves as Oklahoma’s state song. Others have had success with Guthrie songs as well… (Interview) And, bet you weren’t thinking about Woody during “The Departed”… (Interview)
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Woody wrote this tune and his cousin Jack recorded it in 1945. It went to the top of the charts…a feat that a Woody Guthrie record never matched. But it’s Woody’s version, not Jack’s, that serves as Oklahoma’s state song. Others have had success with Guthrie songs as well… (Interview) And, bet you weren’t thinking about Woody during “The Departed”… (Interview)
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100 Years of Woody Guthrie – Oklahoma Hills
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