<P> "This Ole House" (sometimes written "This Old House") is a popular song written by Stuart Hamblen, and published in 1954 . Rosemary Clooney's version reached the top of the popular music charts in both the US and the UK in 1954 . The song again topped the UK chart in 1981 in a recording by Shakin' Stevens . </P> <P> Hamblen was supposedly out on a hunting expedition when he and his fellow hunter, actor John Wayne, came across a hut in the mountains . Inside was the body of a man, and the man's dog was still there, guarding the building . This inspired Hamblen to write "This Ole House". The lyric picks up a standard Gospel theme of the "old house"--the mortal body--being left behind when the believer goes to "meet the saints". </P>

Who sang this old house in the 1950s