Australian singles chart:
Tom Dooley entered the Kent charts on 8 November 1958 and peaked at #1. The song was #1 on the Top 100 of 1958.
Album:
The song is on the Kingston Trio’s debut self-titled album that was released in 1958 and charted in Australia in 1959.
Songwriters:
Traditional / Alan Lomax, Frank Warner
Record label of Australian release:
Capitol
Wikipedia:
Tom Dooley is a traditional North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina by Tom Dula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced “Dooley”).
The earliest known recording of the song Tom Dooley was in 1929 by GB Grayson and Henry Whitter.
The Kingston Trio recorded the most popular version in 1958, often credited with starting the “folk music boom” of the late 1950s and 1960s. This recording of the song was inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress (United States) and honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. The Grammy Foundation named it one of the Songs of the Century.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Dooley_(song)
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