Rocky Top ~ ~ ~ The Country Classics

Rocky Top ~ ~ ~ The Country Classics
Cover as recorded by: Osborne Brothers
Songwriters: Felice and Boudleaux Bryant (1967)
Audio & video produced by McCarty Ln Studio 1994/3-9-2024
in Rochester, IN.

The Country Classics 1994 - LIVE
Vocals & R. Guitar: Gene Gamble Jr
Lead Guitar: Mike Andrews
Bass: Mike Andrews Jr
Drums: Pat Gamble

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Fostex Multi-Tracker Recorder (4)
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Pioneer CT-W504R Stereo Cassette Player/Recorder
Windows Media Digital Conversion
Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio 16 (Editing & Mixing)
YouTube Movie Maker 13

"Rocky Top" is an American country and bluegrass song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant in 1967 and first recorded by the Osborne Brothers later that same year. The song, which is a city dweller's lamentation over the loss of a simpler and freer existence in the hills of Tennessee, is one of Tennessee's ten official state songs and has been recorded by dozens of artists from multiple musical genres worldwide since its publication. In U.S. college athletics, "Rocky Top" is associated with the Tennessee Volunteers of the University of Tennessee (UT), whose Pride of the Southland Band has played a marching band version of the song at the school's sporting events since the early 1970s.
The Osborne Brothers' 1967 bluegrass version of the song reached No. 33 on the U.S. Country charts, and Lynn Anderson's 1970 version peaked at No. 17 on the U.S. Country charts and No. 33 in Canada.[4] In 2005, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ranked "Rocky Top" number seven on its list of 100 Songs of the South.