I heard , somewhere, a snippet of the old song, Don't Fence Me In and last night I decided to learn it. Man there are a lot of different versions. I spend a couple of hours last night watching/listening to many, many people playing this tune. Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters had a #1 hit with it and it took them all of a half hour to record it. Roy Rogers on a tv show riding Trigger in to the studio to perform. Jazz guys, fingerstyle versions. The Killers did version for a Nevada tourism ad campaign. Harry Connick Jr. recorded it ( I haven't listened to his yet). David Byrne recorded a terrible version for a Cole Porter tribute album.
Written by Cole Porter who used a poem by a guy name Robert Fletcher who worked for Montana Highway Dept writing historical marker plaques or something in 1934 for a film that never got made. Eventually in 1944 a film was made called "Don't Fence Me In". Oh and Gene Autry also recorded it. Ella Fitzgerald, Willie Nelson...
Here's Roy and Trigger
Written by Cole Porter who used a poem by a guy name Robert Fletcher who worked for Montana Highway Dept writing historical marker plaques or something in 1934 for a film that never got made. Eventually in 1944 a film was made called "Don't Fence Me In". Oh and Gene Autry also recorded it. Ella Fitzgerald, Willie Nelson...
Here's Roy and Trigger
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