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Thread #119367 Message #2618618
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Apr-09 - 02:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Lead Me to the Rock
Subject: RE: req/ADD: Lead Me to the Rock
Ah, but in this case, Bruce, you're right. I assumed the song was by Hill, since he's a singer-songwriter and all - but this page has a clip of the Wally Fowler song sung at the Grand Ole Opry, and it's the same song - identified by the Harry Fox Agency as "Lead Me To That Rock," written by Wally Fowler and recorded by Hank Williams.
Now, to find the Ray Stevens song....and here (click) - and it's the same darn song!!! And that means that the Harry Fox Agency, Infallible Arbiter of Songwriting Attribution, is fallible!! So, was the song written by Wally Fowler, Ray Stevens, or somebody else? I'm putting my money on Fowler, since I don't think Ray Stevens (born 1939) is old enough to have written a song recorded by Hank Williams, who died in 1953.
-Joe-This youtube video has a great bass, and an interesting tenor...(The Music City Boys)