I thought it was written by I.P. Daley, and I thought Jeff Christie was an obscure Pittsburgh disk jockey from the early 70s.
You learn something knew every day.
This song is one of a few, Sutter’s Mill being another, that have gained immortality in Thailand, where I’ve heard each hundreds of times. I’ve never heard either one in the US, and didn’t even know of them until I heard them in Thailand.
Here is a music video of that song.
Yes, a full 10 years before MTV, we had a music video of this song and not a bad one either. Many of the trees along the riverbank of that video are still alive today. Even some of the people.
They had a follow up hit called "San Bernardino" which also featured a video. Only the video was shot in London, not San Bernardino!
I remember sitting in the Bourbon and Beefsteak in the King’s Cross in Sydney and singing along with a dozen other Yanks on R&R.
‘C’mon boy you can take my place
Got my papers and got my pay’
WOW! Thats a BLAST from my PAST!!
I thought they were singing about the Red Chinese river Huang Ho, which means Yellow River, as far as I know.
In 1971 or 1972 rosebowl game, Stanford playing in the game, for haltime...the band played YELLOW RIVER, and marched and formed the outline of an “outhouse” with the halfmoon cutout in the door. Not sure everyone got the connection...