Smokey Norman / Blue Ridge Buddies
11455 - Intoxicated Rat (Dixon)
11456 - Why Did I Cross Over? (Norman DeHart)
Smokey’s Records
1201 Cloverdale Street
High Point, N.C.
1963
11455 - Intoxicated Rat (Dixon)
11456 - Why Did I Cross Over? (Norman DeHart)
Smokey’s Records
1201 Cloverdale Street
High Point, N.C.
1963
"Intoxicated Rat" is a cover of a song first recorded the Dixon Brothers :
According to Gus Meade's book Country Music Sources, Dorsey Dixon, one of country music's finest early songwriters, is the originator and composer, c. 1935. The song was recorded with his brother Howard as the Dixon Brothers in Charlotte, NC, February 12, 1936, and released in June 1936 on Bluebird and Montgomery Ward: BB B6327, MW M4823.
The Dixon Brothers version is on youTube
Label pic from current eBay auction (auction has a sample of both sides)
thanks : http://myworld.ebay.com/djmackgyver
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