"The Comancheros" (1961)"Wolverton Mountain" (1962)"The Burning of Atlanta" (1962)
"Wolverton Mountain" is a country music song and 1962 crossover hit that established Claude King's career as an American country singer-songwriter. The song was a rewrite of the original version by Merle Kilgore, which was based on a real person named Clifton Clowers (Kilgore's own uncle). Clowers lived on Woolverton Mountain (the spelling was changed for the song), north of Morrilton, Arkansas, located some 50 miles (80 km) west of Little Rock. The song spent nine weeks at the top of the Billboardcountry chart in the United States in June and July 1962. A giant crossover hit, "Wolverton Mountain" reached number six on the Billboard 100 pop chart and number three on the easy listening chart.
Premise
The song's storyline deals with the narrator's desire for Clowers' daughter and his intention to climb the titular mountain and marry her. It opens with the recounting of a legendary warning to the listener not to "go on Wolverton Mountain", as its inhabitant Clifton Clowers, who is "handy with a gun and a knife", poses a lethal threat to anyone who tries to approach his beautiful daughter, whose "tender lips are sweeter than honey". If a stranger attempts to enter, Clowers is alerted by "the bears and the birds". The narrator has decided to defy Clowers and climb the mountain despite the acknowledged danger. What will eventually happen to him is not revealed in the lyric, but the positive tone suggests optimism.
Clifton Clowers
Clifton T. Clowers was born on 30 October 1891, at Center Ridge, Arkansas, son of Thomas Jefferson Clowers and Mary Prince Clowers. In July 1919, he married Esther Bell. He was a veteran of World War I and a deacon in the Mountain View Baptist Church. He was immortalized by the success of "Wolverton Mountain". He lived most of his life on a small farm located on the northern edge of Woolverton Mountain. According to one of his grandchildren, Clowers wished that Kilgore had not suggested in the song that he threatened his daughter's suitors with a gun and a knife, saying, "I never used those tools for that purpose, I just used them to hunt and whittle.”
On his 100th birthday Clowers was visited by both writers of the song, King and Kilgore. He died at the age of 102 on 15 August 1994 at his home in Clinton, Arkansas, and was buried at the Woolverton Mountain Cemetery.
Covers, later recordings and answer versions
Country singer Dickey Lee, who was still emerging on the music scene at the time, covered the song just months after it was released.
https://youtu.be/dq9nDTdtBgE
An answer song, "(I'm the Girl from) Wolverton Mountain", was recorded by Jo Ann Campbell, released in August 1962 ("Yes, I'm the girl from Wolverton Mountain / I wish someone would make me their wife"), and hit the Billboard charts (#38 pop, #24 country, #10 AC).
https://youtu.be/lzucAhsOOv0
Maureen Moore - I'm the girl from Wolverton Mountain
https://youtu.be/q-THZ0no_lM
The song also achieved popularity in Australia in a version by Dorothy Baker.
The song was also parodied by Marty Cooper (as "El Clod") in a version called "Tijuana Border (Wolverton Mountain)". It reached #111 on the Billboard Bubbling Under chart in the fall of 1962.
In 1985, inspired by the Dirt Band's rendition of the song, a cable television program in Summit County, Colorado featured restaurateur Jim Rianoshek portraying a character named Clifton Clowers, who promoted a fictional ski area called Wolverton Mountain, "where the snow is so deep that it is the home of periscope skiing, and the cost of a lift ticket depends on your line of credit".
Hank Williams Jr. mentioned Clifton Clowers in a track titled "If the South Woulda Won" on his album Wild Streak (1988).
https://youtu.be/O8px3T90-2Y
Great Plains recorded the song in 1997. Writer Merle Kilgore praised Great Plains' version, saying that it was the first time since King's original that the "magic" had been recaptured.
“The Comancheros” (1961)”Wolverton Mountain“ (1962)”The Burning of Atlanta” (1962)
“Wolverton Mountain” is a country music song and 1962 crossover hit that established Claude King‘s career as an American country singer-songwriter. The song was a rewrite of the original version by Merle Kilgore, which was based on a real person named Clifton Clowers (Kilgore’s own uncle). Clowers lived on Woolverton Mountain (the spelling was changed for the song), north of Morrilton, Arkansas, located some 50 miles (80 km) west of Little Rock. The song spent nine weeks at the top of the Billboardcountry chart in the United States in June and July 1962. A giant crossover hit, “Wolverton Mountain” reached number six on the Billboard 100 pop chart and number three on the easy listening chart.
Premise
The song’s storyline deals with the narrator’s desire for Clowers’ daughter and his intention to climb the titular mountain and marry her. It opens with the recounting of a legendary warning to the listener not to “go on Wolverton Mountain”, as its inhabitant Clifton Clowers, who is “handy with a gun and a knife”, poses a lethal threat to anyone who tries to approach his beautiful daughter, whose “tender lips are sweeter than honey”. If a stranger attempts to enter, Clowers is alerted by “the bears and the birds”. The narrator has decided to defy Clowers and climb the mountain despite the acknowledged danger. What will eventually happen to him is not revealed in the lyric, but the positive tone suggests optimism.
Clifton Clowers
Clifton T. Clowers was born on 30 October 1891, at Center Ridge, Arkansas, son of Thomas Jefferson Clowers and Mary Prince Clowers. In July 1919, he married Esther Bell. He was a veteran of World War I and a deacon in the Mountain View Baptist Church. He was immortalized by the success of “Wolverton Mountain”. He lived most of his life on a small farm located on the northern edge of Woolverton Mountain. According to one of his grandchildren, Clowers wished that Kilgore had not suggested in the song that he threatened his daughter’s suitors with a gun and a knife, saying, “I never used those tools for that purpose, I just used them to hunt and whittle.”
On his 100th birthday Clowers was visited by both writers of the song, King and Kilgore. He died at the age of 102 on 15 August 1994 at his home in Clinton, Arkansas, and was buried at the Woolverton Mountain Cemetery.
Covers, later recordings and answer versions
Country singer Dickey Lee, who was still emerging on the music scene at the time, covered the song just months after it was released.
Dickey Lee / Wolverton Mountain / Miller's Cave
An answer song, “(I’m the Girl from) Wolverton Mountain”, was recorded by Jo Ann Campbell, released in August 1962 (“Yes, I’m the girl from Wolverton Mountain / I wish someone would make me their wife”), and hit the Billboard charts (#38 pop, #24 country, #10 AC).
Jo Ann Campbell – (I'm The Girl) From Wolverton Mountain 1962 (Country Music Greats)
Maureen Moore – I’m the girl from Wolverton Mountain
Maureen Moore – I'm the girl from Wolverton Mountain
The song also achieved popularity in Australia in a version by Dorothy Baker.
Dorothy Baker – I'm The Girl From Wolverton Mountain 1962 ( W&G ) WG-S-1498.wmv
The song was also parodied by Marty Cooper (as “El Clod”) in a version called “Tijuana Border (Wolverton Mountain)”. It reached #111 on the Billboard Bubbling Under chart in the fall of 1962.
In 1985, inspired by the Dirt Band’s rendition of the song, a cable television program in Summit County, Colorado featured restaurateur Jim Rianoshek portraying a character named Clifton Clowers, who promoted a fictional ski area called Wolverton Mountain, “where the snow is so deep that it is the home of periscope skiing, and the cost of a lift ticket depends on your line of credit”.
Hank Williams Jr. mentioned Clifton Clowers in a track titled “If the South Woulda Won” on his album Wild Streak (1988).
Hank Williams Jr – Wolverton Mountain
Great Plains recorded the song in 1997. Writer Merle Kilgore praised Great Plains’ version, saying that it was the first time since King’s original that the “magic” had been recaptured.
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