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JohnP - Posted - 01/31/2010: 15:54:56
Just curious --
- Who wrote it?
- About when was it written?
- Was it originally written with lyrics, or were lyrics ever added later?
I'm familiar mostly with the versions on Oswald's recording, "Brother Oswald" (Rounder CD 0013) and "The Great Dobro Sessions," and haven't been able to find out much online about the song's history. I did learn that Red Foley had a hit with a song of the same name, way back when. Is Foley's "EOTW" one & the same as the "EOTW" that Os is so well known for?
Thanks in advance for any information!
Dean Upson - Posted - 01/31/2010: 17:10:36
I believe that Fred Rose wrote it . If you search "End of the World", you come up with the Skeeter Davis hit from years ago. When I think dobro, one of the first tunes that pops into my head is Os and End of the World...........timeless and just as great a tune now as ever.
Is this it????? I never heard words to it??????????
Dean
END OF THE WORLD
(Fred Rose)
« © '50 Milene Music, ASCAP »
You promised to love till the end of the world
And I built a world just for two
Now I'm alone at the end of the world
What good am I without you
Gone are the vows that we made by the stars
Gone like a boat from the blue
Darling I'm lost at the end of the world
What good are vows without you
[ piano ]
Yestrerday's love is a cold memory
Leaving me heartsick and blue
Where can I turn at the end of the world
What good is love without you
Yes this is the end of a beautiful dream
A dream that could never come true
I can't go on at the end of the world
The end of my world loving you
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Edited by - Dean Upson on 01/31/2010 17:16:51
otdobro - Posted - 02/01/2010: 05:11:30
That's the one, Dean. A friend of mine in Maine, Lyman Wing, used to sing it. I never knew it had words until I was playing it one time for him. He said he learned it from a Hank Snow recording.
Dean Upson - Posted - 02/01/2010: 05:29:43
I wish I could claim be be a brain on this, but the truth is I just looked at the Great Dobro Sessions Book and found that Fred Rose wrote it. Then it was a simple matter to go to Google and type in Fred Rose and End of the World. At any rate, I am glad to have found it for you. I have never heard the song sung, but I wish I had it. What in the world would we do without Google?
Dean
oswald - Posted - 02/01/2010: 07:44:22
Roy Acuff recorded it as a vocal. A good deal of Fred Rose`s songs were written for Roy Acuff, Gene Autry, Jimmie Davis & Hank Williams. Not a bad list, huh!
jaykellogg - Posted - 02/01/2010: 13:17:33
Hank Snow's version is on "The Thesaurus Transcriptions" CD.
JohnP - Posted - 02/02/2010: 14:37:08
Many thanks to all for the information and help!
Now I'd like to see if I can't locate & pay to download a sung version of "EOTW" by one of the singers referenced in this thread. Haven't found much yet. The handful of sung versions that I have found -- including Hank Snow & Red Foley -- are on somewhat pricey CD boxed-sets that I'm not too interested in at this point. (Though you never know!) There's a version by Johnny Bond on iTunes, but it'd be nice to see if there aren't other, "old timey"-er versions available, such as by Roy Acuff (as mentioned by Oswald, above) and/or the like.
I wonder which came first -- the instrumental version of "EOTW," or the rendition with lyrics?
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