| Winston Smith | 26 Oct 2017 9:40 p.m. PST |
Original recording by Jimmie Driftwood who wrote the dong.
YouTube link
He originally wrote it while a school teacher. It was for his history class, to make it more interesting. 
Oddly, Lafitte and Packenham didn't make it into Johnny Horton's Version. Driftwood also wrote The Tennessee Stud. YouTube surfing brought me to BoNO.
Interesting guy. |
| jdpintex | 27 Oct 2017 5:38 a.m. PST |
I like this version much better than Johnny Horton's, albeit Horton's is pretty great. Many thanks for the link. It's the best you've ever posted. |
| 21eRegt | 27 Oct 2017 6:25 a.m. PST |
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| brass1 | 27 Oct 2017 8:15 a.m. PST |
Well, it's slightly less idiotic than the Johnny Horton version but it's still crap history. Packenham is mentioned in the song but apparently, in the alternate universe described in this musical fewmet, he was only a colonel. The park rangers at Chalmette National Battlefield are not great fans (to put it mildly) of the Horton version and I suspect they'd extend their dislike to the original as well. LT |
| Pan Marek | 27 Oct 2017 9:30 a.m. PST |
Its a song, for heaven's sakes. |
| brass1 | 27 Oct 2017 6:42 p.m. PST |
True, but a history teacher writing for his class should have done better. I've worked the Battle of New Orleans reenactment for all but two years since 2004 and I am amazed at how many visitors are under the impression that this song actually has something to do with the real battle. Of course, I recall listening to a man describing the battle to his son: <pointing at the Seventh US Infantry> "The soldiers in the blue coats are in our army." <pointing towards the British encampment> "And those soldiers over there are the Confederates." I probably can't blame Jimmie Driftwood and Johnny Horton for that one. LT |
| Winston Smith | 27 Oct 2017 8:33 p.m. PST |
Are we going to apply the same standards to pop music as we do to movies with tanks?
The song was written before the right thinking Americans learned that Andy Jackson was a boo hiss villain. Are you trying to say that they DIDN'T grab an alligator and powder his behind???? |
| Winston Smith | 27 Oct 2017 8:35 p.m. PST |
I should also point out, in the interest of accuracy and correcting my OP, that Jimmie Driftwood didn't write a dong. He wrote a song. |
| jdpintex | 27 Oct 2017 10:33 p.m. PST |
I must have missed the memo. Jackson is now a villan? |
| Tom D1 | 25 Nov 2017 3:47 p.m. PST |
They're all villains now. |
| Major Bloodnok | 30 Nov 2017 4:20 p.m. PST |
Ask the Cherokee. BTW I oprefer the Arrogant Worms version link |
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