When I was a youngster in the late '50's, I had a 45 record about Tom Dooley, Jr. Anyone know about it?

Question

cant find it on ITunes, or anywhere else. Not the one by Kingston Trio!

Answer 1

Doc Watson recorded Tom Dooley some where in the early sixties. You can here it at
http://play.rhapsody.com/docwatson/docwatson/tomdooley?didAutoplayBounce=true
You have to download their player.

It is very much like the Kingston Trio verion.

I think the Chad Mitchell Trio also did a version of Tom Dooley. I can hear it in my head, very upbeat in that Chad Michell sort of way. But I can not find it anywhere. I even went through the ol LPs I have.

Answer 2

"Tom Dooley" is an old North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a girl named Laura Foster in Wilkes County. It is best known today because of a hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio. Several notable recordings have been made:

Grayson and Whitter, Victor, 1929. The first recorded version by a group well known at the time.
Frank Warner, Elektra, 1952. Warner, a folklorist, unaware of the 1929 recording, in 1940 took down the song from Frank Proffitt and passed it to Alan Lomax who published it in Folk Song: USA.
The Kingston Trio, Capitol, 1958. This recording sold in excess of six million copies and is often credited with starting the "folk boom" of the late 1950s and 1960s. It only had three verses (and the chorus four times).


(Spoken recitation over musical accompaniment)
Throughout history, there have been many songs written about the eternal triangle. This next one tells the story of Mister Grayson, a beautiful woman, and a condemned man named Tom Dooley. When the sun rises tomorrow, Tom Dooley must hang.

Chorus:
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley. Hang down your head and cry.
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley. Poor boy, you're bound to die.

I met her on the mountain. There I took her life. Met her on the mountain. Stabbed her with my knife.

(Chorus)

This time tomorrow. Reckon where I'll be. Hadn't-a been for Grayson, I'd-a been in Tennessee.

(Chorus)

This time tomorrow. Reckon where I'll be. Down in some lonesome valley hangin' from a white oak tree.

Answer 3

Me too, Hang down your head Tom Dooley, Hang down your head and cry, Hang down your head Tom Dooley, Poor boy you're going to die. Go to www.sonicrec.com/results.asp?search_name

Answer 4

heard it- hang down your head Tom Dooley?-my Mom was a KT fan!!!

Answer 5

I remeber also hearing the smothers brothers perform this on one of their t.v appearances. Maybe you can look there as they also sang a lot of folk tunes. gl

Answer 6

umm srry i was born 40 yrs after u were born... lolz

Answer 7

think it was done by Lonnie Donnegan