Single:
Jambalaya (on the Bayou) entered the Australian singles chart* on 22 January 1973 and peaked at #12. It was #78 on the Top 100 of 1973.
Album:
The song is on Blue Ridge Rangers which entered the Australian albums chart* on 16 July 1973 and peaked at #28.
Songwriter:
Hank Williams
Producer:
John Fogerty
Record label of Australian release:
Fantasy
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Blue Ridge Rangers is the first solo studio album by John Fogerty, the former lead singer and lead guitarist of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Upon its initial release in 1973, the album was credited to ‘The Blue Ridge Rangers’ with no mention of Fogerty on the cover. Fogerty chose to do this in order to distance himself from his Creedence legacy. The LP was later reissued and credited to John Fogerty with a different cover design. The album is made up entirely of traditional and country covers, and features Fogerty playing all the instruments.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Ridge_Rangers
Lyrics:
Goodbye, Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh
Me gotta go, pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne, sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, gonna have big fun on the bayou
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