Reply to: RE: Help find song, Dear Okie
Dear Okie is written by Rudy Sooter and Doye O'Dell.
It's on the following LPs:
- New Lost City Ramblers, Modern Times, Folways FTS 31028 (1968)
(or on CD: New Lost City Ramblers, Volume II 1963-1973: Out Standing in Their Field,
Smithdonian/Folkways 40040 (1993))
- Doye O'Dell, Folk Music in America, Vol. 6. Songs of Migration & Immigration,
Library of Congress LBC-06 (1978).
John Patterson wrote:
>You know, "Dear Okie-if you see Arkie, tell him Tex >has got a job for him out in
>Californy," etc. I think it
>was by Hank Thompson, but All Music Guide doesn't
>list it by him.
>
>Anybody know what album it's on?
>
>-jp
