In 1969, Dolly Parton’s fourth album, My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy, featured a cover of Elvis Presley‘s 1961 Mac Davis-penned hit “In the Ghetto” and Joe South’s “Games People Play,” along with Jan ...
side 1: Vernon Dalhart and Carson Robison. My Blue Ridge Mountain Home; side 2: Vernon Dalhart. When the Work's All Done This Fall (Challenge 688). 78 rpm. Both tracks were originally recorded in 1927 ...
In Parton’s words, the song, “My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy,” is about “a girl whose dream was to get out of the country. She didn’t leave to become a prostitute, but that’s what she wound up doing in ...