Guitarist Tommy Tomlinson was born this week in 1930 in Hampton, Arkansas.
Photo credit: Rockabilly Hall of Fame
Tomlinson played with Hank Williams in the late 40’s, and in the early 50s with Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton and Claude King.
Tomlinson is the connection between two country songs from Horton and King.
Johnny Horton was inspired to write and record the song Sink The Bismarck from the movie of the same name, about the German battleship. There was a British war film, based on C. S. Forester‘s novel The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck. Although the tune was used in trailers for the film, it didn’t appear in the film.
Photo credit :Picture Palace Movie Posters
The next song is Wolverton Mountain by Claude King. King rewrote the song that was written by Merle Kilgore about his uncle Clifton Clowers, who lived on the title mountain in Arkansas. Clowers was born this week in 1891.
The song was so popular that many visited Woolverton(spelled with two Os instead of one in the song title) Mountain to talk to Clowers who became quite famous.
Both classics on the way after 9 on UNCLE ED’S COUNTRY DEN, brought to you by Fantasy Falls, the not-so general store in Kakabeka Falls.
