Single:
Cottonfields entered the Australian singles chart* on 25 May 1970 and was a #1 hit. The song was #15 on the Top 100 of 1970.
Album:
The song is on the Beach Boys album 20/20.
Songwriter:
Huddie Ledbetter
Producers:
Brian Wilson, Al Jardine
Record label of Australian release:
Capitol
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
American rock band the Beach Boys recorded Cottonfields in November 1968: the track with Al Jardine on lead vocals debuted on the group’s 1969 album 20/20. Dissatisfied with Brian Wilson’s arrangement of the song, Jardine later led the group to record a more country rock style version; this version recorded in August 1969, featured Orville “Red” Rhodes on pedal steel guitar.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Fields#The_Beach_Boys_cover
Songfacts:
This much-covered track was written by Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter and recorded by the Blues musician in 1941.
The best known version is for many the one by The Beach Boys, with Al Jardine on lead vocals.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-beach-boys/cotton-fields
Lyrics:
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama done rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home
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