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To: cowpoke
"A Wonderful Time Up There" was written by Lee Roy Abernathy who founded the Modern Mountaineers. The tune below was inspired by a 1937 dance craze.

Everybody's Truckin'--The Modern Mountaineers (1937)

3 posted on 11/11/2018 7:26:25 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill
It says in the write up at YouTube:

Rumor has it that Smokey liked to smoke a lot of pot and his band like to drink. Apparently this song was banned on a lot of jute boxes.

4 posted on 11/11/2018 9:40:47 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Fiji Hill

I think you will find that in the 20s and 30s the word truck was used instead of the f word.


6 posted on 11/11/2018 10:36:07 AM PST by cowpoke
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