I've been going through my music library and attempting the thankless task of figuring out the original release year of every song from compilation albums. I've been having some pretty good success, but I'm totally stumped from an awful recording of Folsom Prison Blues.
Here's all I can tell you: it was released on or before 1966, it seems(?) to have the same backing vocalists as Ballad of a Teenage Queen. This version is under 2 minutes long but could have been sped up by as much as about 5% (several other recordings on the album were). Nothing else unfortunately.
Here's a link to the album it's from: https://www.discogs.com/Various-25-Country-Music-Greats/release/3458828
It was so bad I couldn't even find a recording on YouTube, so I had to upload one myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Gi5DlZrWY
Any info in helping ID the original recording/release year is appreciated.
In OTL, Johnny Cash first got the idea for the famous riff in "Folsom Prison Blues" from the Morse Code message "DEAD" in 1953, when he was the first man in the West to hear that Stalin was dead.
Obviously, the situation is drastically different here, and by the time Hitler dies, his tour of duty is long over. Does this mean that the song is never written, or does he intercept a different death message? Goebbels, perhaps?
Since it's a staple of the streams, I thought you all might like this Roy Clark version as much as I do.
