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Thread #37169   Message #517818
Posted By: Rick Fielding
30-Jul-01 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Sixteen Tons (Merle Travis?)
Subject: RE: Did Merle write Sixteen Tons? Maybe.
Nope Mark. I haven't had that album for twenty five years.

Yeah, Don. Apparently she even claimed that "Pistol Packin' Momma" was written about her. My friend Shelly Romalis just wrote her autobiography.

Yep, about the "cross-fertilization". But with 16 Tons there would have been a LOT of royalties at stake. I'll keep lookin'. hope someone has some better info than I've got.

Rick