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Thread #155631   Message #3663242
Posted By: GUEST,Hootenanny
24-Sep-14 - 05:30 AM
Thread Name: fifties popsongs that started as folk
Subject: RE: fifties popsongs that started as folk
I seem to remember Guy Mitchell doing "Black-eyed Susie" and Johnny Ray doing "Let's Walk This-away" which was obviously taken from Leadbelly's "Hah-Ha This-away". I believe Mitchell also recorded "Cindy". Even before this there was "Irene Goodnight", and wasn't "Tzena Tzena" a folk song?