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Tom Dooley

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Murder ballads Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients 1860s songs 1958 Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles 1958 singles The Kingston Trio songs Pinky and Perky songs Number-one singles in Australia United States National Recording Registry recordings Capitol Records singles Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles

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%22Tom Dooley%22 is an old North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina, purportedly by Tom Dula. The song is best known today because of a hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio. This version was a multi-format hit, which reached #1 in Billboard and the Billboard R&B listing, and appeared in the Cashbox Country Music Top 20. It fits within the wider genre of Appalachian %22sweetheart murder ballads%22.The song was selected as one of the American Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.A local poet named Thomas Land wrote a song about the tragedy, titled %22Tom Dooley%22 (which was how Dula's name was pronounced), shortly after Dula was hanged. In the documentary Appalachian Journey (1991), folklorist Alan Lomax inaccurately describes Frank Proffitt as the %22original source%22 for the song. Although there are several earlier known recordings, notably the one by Grayson and Whitter made in 1929, approximately 10 years before Proffitt cut his own recording, the Kingston Trio took their version from Frank Warner's singing. Warner had learned the song from Proffitt, who learned it from his Aunt Nancy Prather, whose parents had known both Laura Foster and Tom Dula.

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