This is from Cranky's essay about himself:

"I did my own innovative version of "Muleskinner Blues". Up until that time, the only way anyone sang this song was the way Jimmy Rogers and Bill Monroe did it. This new version, which Bruce released as "Good Morning Captain" is now the way everyone sings this old folk song."

Muleskinner Blues has been a standard in country, bluegrass and folk music since the 193os when Jimmie Rodgers (not "Jimmy Rogers") made it a hit. Bluegrass bands typically perform Monroe's arrangement. Country guys like Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson have records of it that obviously come through Rodgers. I have a bootleg of Bob Dylan doing it in the sixties. His arrangement is a copy of Ramblin Jack Elliott's. Ramblin' Jack Elliott's is a copy of Woody Guthrie's. Woody Guthrie's was based on Rodgers.

"Everyone" does not base their version on Cranky Yankee's.

Again, from Cranky's essay about himself:

"The TETRA record, Good Morning Captain, was an instant success. ONLY RELEASED IN NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA, it sold 400,000+ 45's and 100,000 78's. It was on all the juke boxes and got a lot of play oon the AM pop and Rock and Roll stations."

I'm sure "oon" is a typo for "on." I would allege that the rest of his claims are somewhat bogus. Any single that sold a total of half a million copies in the fifties, or anytime, would have resulted in all kinds of coverage. It would have been enough for a Billboard #1 hit. Check the record books, you won't find Cranky's name there. Not as Cranky Yankee, not as Joe D. Gibson, not as Jody Gibson and not as Jody Katzberg. My guess is that, maybe, it sold 400 45s and 100 78s.

I guess now Cranky will have to start a new thread about how I slandered him.