Fact #178365
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Short story:
The Kingston Trio enter the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with Greenback Dollar, written by Hoyt Axton. It will peak at No21.
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Hoyt Axton : I was a folk singer for ten years. I was recording for a small label called Horizon, which was distributed by a jazz label, and jazz was not a major seller in America at that time. I made a lot of mistakes when I was younger, through inexperience, bad management and some other things.
After I got ripped off as a writer on Greenback Dollar, I didn't go into a blue funk and walk around crying that everyone's crooked. I've always been an optimist, and I'm going to stay that way until I die. I think I get that from my mother, who could go up to the devil himself, and she'd say 'Hello, young man, you're a lovely shade of red, but you're a naughty boy'. With Greenback Dollar, I had a crooked publisher, and that was when I'd only been in the business a year, so I didn't know anything - I was just a kid with a guitar, living in a car... How could I sue when the whole point of the song was how I didn't give a damn about a Greenback Dollar?
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After I got ripped off as a writer on Greenback Dollar, I didn't go into a blue funk and walk around crying that everyone's crooked. I've always been an optimist, and I'm going to stay that way until I die. I think I get that from my mother, who could go up to the devil himself, and she'd say 'Hello, young man, you're a lovely shade of red, but you're a naughty boy'. With Greenback Dollar, I had a crooked publisher, and that was when I'd only been in the business a year, so I didn't know anything - I was just a kid with a guitar, living in a car... How could I sue when the whole point of the song was how I didn't give a damn about a Greenback Dollar?