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Red River Dave

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Aliases
''Red River Dave'' and Orchestra
Red River Dave with Orchestra
Real name
David Largus McEnery
Born
December 15, 1914
Died
January 15, 2002
Country
United States
IPI
00018905087 3 works
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
Country music singer, prolific songwriter and guitarist from San Antonio, Texas.
As a songwriter Red River Dave was best known for "event" songs, written in response to the headlines of the day. He found inspiration in stories as diverse and unlikely as the murder of Sharon Tate ("The California Hippy Murders"), the kidnapping of Patty Hearst ("The Ballad of Patty Hearst") and America's most notorious nuclear accident ("The Ballad of Three-Mile Island").
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Covers by Red River Dave

Title Performer Release date Originally by
May 1944 Vernon Dalhart
June 1948 Sons of the Pioneers
listen on Internet Archive December 1945 Bob and Randall Atcher and Bonnie Blue Eyes
August 1940 Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
  August 1944 The Sons of the Pioneers REL, Bing Crosby BRD, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
1946 Texas Top Hands - Vocal Chorus by Walter Kleypas
June 25, 1940 Gene Autry
listen on Internet Archive June 1940 Joe Loss and His Band (Vocalist: Chick Henderson)
August 1944 Vernon Dalhart
June 1946 Luther B. Clarke accomp. by Blue Ridge Highballers
August 1940 Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
August 1944 The Hill Billies [GB]
March 1945 W. Lee O'Daniel and His Light Crust Doughboys
  August 1944 Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Blackwell Lunsford REL, Carl T. Sprague REC
listen on Internet Archive December 1945 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Vocal by Tommy Duncan with Orchestra
June 1946 Spade Cooley and His Orchestra - Vocal by “Tex” and “Oakie”
May 1944 (unknown), Henry Whitter
listen on Internet Archive December 1945 J.J. Fisher, Dixie Reelers
listen on Internet Archive June 1940 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle
August 1944 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Cliff Weston
June 1948 Sons of the Pioneers
May 1944 Vernon Dalhart
May 1944 Fiddlin' John Carson
August 1944 George Olsen and His Music
May 1960 Elton Britt
Covered by Tommy Dee
May 1944 Miller & Burnett
listen on Internet Archive June 1940 Bud and Joe Billings (Carson Robison, Frank Luther)
June 25, 1940 Irving Gillette (Henry Burr)