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Green, Green Grass of Home is a Country act. Their sound grew out of Porter Wagoner and Jerry Lee Lewis. Those roots explain a lot about how Green, Green Grass of Home arrange songs and choose their tones. Altogether the chart holds 2 connections around Green, Green Grass of Home, reaching back through Porter Wagoner. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Green, Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., and first recorded by American singer Johnny Darrell as his debut single in 1965, is a country song made popular by Porter Wagoner the same year, when it reached No. 4 on the Country chart. It was also recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, who included it in his album Country Songs for City Folks. Welsh singer Tom Jones learned the song from Lewis' version and, in 1966, he had a No. 1 hit in several countries with it.
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Green, Green Grass of Home grew out of Porter Wagoner and Jerry Lee Lewis. 2 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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