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According to
Stuart Hamblen, his 1950’s hit song, “This Ole
House,” was written because of a hunting trip!
Hamblen
explained, “This Ole House” was written in the
High Sierra Mountain range while I was on a
hunting trip. It was a cold winter day and we
found an old prospectors cabin. There was an old
dog lying on the front porch but no smoke coming
from the chimney. We went inside the cabin and
found an old man dead in the back room. I wrote
“This Ole House” that same afternoon.”
“This Ole
House” entered the country music charts August 21st,
`1954 and peaked at number two. It was on the
country charts for 30 weeks. The record also
scored a # 26 on the pop music
charts.
The song also
made it to number 16 for Wilma Lee &
Stoney
Cooper in 1960 and was a number one pop hit for
Rosemary Clooney in 1954.
Doug Davis
Country Music Classics
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