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Kaysa Carpenter performing - Rocky Top

Kaysa Carpenter performing "Rocky Top" at the Centennial Rodeo Opry in OKC's Historic Stockyards City on the November 9th, 2008"Rocky Top" is one of seven official state songs of the state of Tennessee, as well as the unofficial fight song for the University of Tennessee Volunteers. The two best-known versions of the song are by the Osborne Brothers and Lynn Anderson. The Osborne Brothers first had a regional hit with the song in 1967, however, it was Lynn Anderson's version that was the mainstream country hit in 1970.The song was written by a married couple, songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. They wrote "Rocky Top" in only ten minutes in 1967. The Bryants were working in Gatlinburg on a collection of slow-tempo songs for a project for Archie Campbell and Chet Atkins. Writing the fast-paced "Rocky Top" served as a temporary diversion for them. Recorded by the Osborne Brothers in 1967, the song was a top 40 hit on the country music charts in early 1968.Although a staple of their concerts, the song did not achieve mass popularity until Lynn Anderson had a hit with it in 1970, and when the "Pride of the Southland" University of Tennessee marching band used it for one of their drills in 1972. The song was very popular and was officially adopted as a state song in 1982. In the 1970s, the song achieved such popularity among bar crowds that the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, old-time band the Red Clay Ramblers national tours included a crowd-pleasing satire informally titled "Play 'Rocky Top' (or I'll Punch Your Lights Out.)"Rocky Top and the Appalachian Trail The song describes a place called Rocky Top, Tennessee, which is one of the peaks of Thunderhead Mountain located in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park . Thunderhead straddles the border between Tennessee and North Carolina.[3][4] The Appalachian Trail crosses the GSMNP in a southwest-to-northeast direction, taking hikers directly over Rocky Top.Despite its fast and upbeat tempo, the song's first verse is actually a lament over a failed love affair and a vanishing way of life. The song's second verse is an ode to two apparent revenuers and the illegal production of alcoholic beverages by moonshining, with a reference to "looking for a moonshine still." These are all common country music themes. With its good-natured regional references to a carefree lifestyle, the singing of "Rocky Top" by Tennessee college students and alumni at sports venues such as Neyland Stadium is well established. The University of Tennessee has been granted a perpetual license to play the song as much and as often as success on the field dictates by the copyright holders, House of Bryant.

Channel: Nonprofits & Activism
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: grantsrodeoopry

Length: 02:41
Rating: 5.00
Views: 398

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