<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . The specific problem is: see WP: SONGCOVER Please help improve this section if you can . (January 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Several notable recordings have been made: </P> <Ul> <Li> In 1929, G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter made the first recorded version of Land's song by a group well known at the time, for Victor . </Li> <Li> Frank Warner, Elektra, 1952 . Warner, a folklorist, unaware of the 1929 recording, in 1940 took down the song from Frank Proffitt and passed it to Alan Lomax who published it in Folk Song: USA . </Li> <Li> The Folksay Trio, which featured Erik Darling, Bob Carey and Roger Sprung, issued the first post-1950 version of the song for American Folksay - Ballads and Dances, Vol. 2 on the Stinson label in 1953 . The group reformed in 1956 as The Tarriers, featuring Darling, Carey and Alan Arkin, and released another version of "Tom Dooley" for The Tarriers on the Glory label in 1957 . </Li> <Li> Paul Clayton, a singer - songwriter and folklorist, recorded "Tom Dooley" (as "Tom Dula") on Bloody Ballads: British and American Murder Ballads for Riverside Records in 1956 . </Li> <Li> The Kingston Trio recorded the most popular version of the song, in 1958, for Capitol . This recording sold in excess of six million copies, topping the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and is often credited with starting the "folk music boom" of the late 1950s and 1960s . It only had three verses (and the chorus four times). This recording of the song has been inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress and been honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award . The Grammy Foundation named it one of the Songs of the Century . </Li> <Li> Lonnie Donegan covered The Kingston Trio's version of Land's song in the UK, later in 1958 . This version charted in the United Kingdom simultaneously with the Kingston Trio's . Its uptempo skiffle style was a contrast to the U.S. version's slower arrangement . </Li> <Li> Line Renaud recorded a French - language version, "Fais Ta Prière (Tom Dooley)", in 1959 . The song was released on Renaud's album Les souvenirs sont faits de ça, and is also available on the compilation "Line: 100 chansons ." </Li> <Li> Les Compagnons de la chanson also recorded "Tom Dooley (Fais Ta Prière)" in February 1959 (Pathé - Marconi record: PAM - 77.260). </Li> <Li> The George Garabedian Troubadours recorded a Cha - cha - cha version in 1959 which is referenced in Sam Cooke's song Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha </Li> <Li> Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album On the Sentimental Side (1962). </Li> <Li> Doc Watson, Vanguard Records, 1964 . Watson performed the older version of the song, similar to Grayson and Whitter, that he had learned from his grandmother . </Li> <Li> Television host Jack Narz recorded his version of "Tom Dooley" for his album Sing the Folk Hits With Jack Narz in 1959 . </Li> <Li> Frank Proffitt sings the song on "Newport Folk Festival 1964: The Evening Concerts, Volume 1", Vanguard Records, 1964 . </Li> <Li> The Hiltonaires recorded a Mento (Jamaican folk) version of the song in 1965 for legendary Jamaican record label' Studio One', released on their album Ska - Motion In Ska - lip - so in 1966 . </Li> <Li> Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown recorded a version in 1993 using the title "Tom Dula" and credited Frank Profitt as songwriter . </Li> <Li> Carolina Chocolate Drops recorded a version on their album Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind (2006). </Li> <Li> Neil Young together with Crazy Horse recorded an eight - minute version on their 2012 album Americana (2012), on which they retitled the song to the proper spelling "Tom Dula" and pronounced it in such a way as to make it a political statement against former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay . </Li> <Li> Macabre Minstrels (a side project of the metal band Macabre) recorded a version on their EP Morbid Campfire Songs (2002). </Li> <Li> In 1973, German Schlager singer Heino sang a German version of the song entitled "Tom Dooley" giving credit to Dave Guard, one of the founders of The Kingston Trio . (It was the third song on his album "Seine großen Erfolge 4 .") </Li> <Li> The chorus of the song is sung by camp counsellors in the horror film, Friday the 13th (1980), which opens with a flashback to 1958 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> In 1929, G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter made the first recorded version of Land's song by a group well known at the time, for Victor . </Li>

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