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Thread #97435 Message #1919703
Posted By: mrdux
27-Dec-06 - 12:55 AM
Thread Name: Folk Songs That Hit the Charts as Pop Songs
Subject: RE: Folk Songs That Hit the Charts as Pop Songs
the Beach Boys took "Sloop John B" -- a traditional West Indies (Bahamian?) song collected by Carl Sandburg and Alan Lomax -- to #3 on the Billboard chart in 1966.