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Vernon Dalhart records The Prisoner's Song backed with The Wreck Of The Old 97, for Victor Records in New York City, USA. It will become the first country record to sell a million copies. Dalhart will eventually record The Prisoner's Song eighteen times and it will be issued on 53 labels in the USA.
Vernon Dalhart records The Prisoner's Song for Victor Records in the USA. The melody of this song will inspire three later songs, I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1929) by The Carter Family, Great Speckle Bird (1937) by Roy Acuff and Wild Side Of Life (1951) by Jimmy Heap.