The songs especially those after the fact , really, just repeat the narrative of the film to music accentuating the emotional highlights or themes. I digress, but it is relevant as Claude King was very much of the country storyteller ilk with a distinct Hollywood-ness to his music. King was no different to many other country singers of his day:. At a young age, he was interested in music but also in athletics and the outdoors. He purchased a guitar at the age of twelve, and although he learned to play, most of his time was devoted to sports. He said he grew up "…about as poor as you can be. But the farm land did not treat them well for it was red land dirt and did not seem to favor any type of good crop.

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He is a celebrity singer. American country music singer who released the hit song, "Wolverton Mountain. He was given a baseball scholarship for the University of Idaho and from to , he was in the U. Navy during World War II. He was honored in the state of Arkansas when the Governor Frank D. White declared August 7th as Wolverton Mountain Day in He was married to Barbara Coco for sixty-seven years and they had three sons. Claude King is 90 years old. George Jones.
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The song was a rewrite of the original version by Merle Kilgore , which was based on a real person named Clifton Clowers who lived on the mountain the mountain's actual name being spelled Woolverton. The song spent nine weeks at the top of the Billboard country chart in the US in 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".
Men and women must be willing to accept what they know to be true. I could never put up with the crap he has to put up with but he could never put up with the loneliness I have to put up with Awww this makes me sooo sad. I am engaged to a doctor who will complete his residency in 2 years.