who wrote beat it on down the line
Jesse Fuller
title: Beat It On Down the Line text: Beat It On Down the Line Beat It Down the Line is a country-blues song written by Jesse Fuller and first recorded in 1961. The lyrics mention "Joe Brown's Coal Mine", which refer to Joseph E. Brown, four times governor of Georgia and president of the Dale Coal Company who ran numerous coal mines in the state. The song was covered by the Grateful Dead and was one of the first songs the band played live, even being performed in their pre-Dead jug band incarnation as Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions in 1964. and appeared on their first album. It title: Beat It On Down the Line text: remained in the band's sets throughout their career, being performed at least 323 times between 3/12/66 and 10/3/94, every year except 1976 and 1995. Beat It On Down the Line Beat It Down the Line is a country-blues song written by Jesse Fuller and first recorded in 1961. The lyrics mention "Joe Brown's Coal Mine", which refer to Joseph E. Brown, four times governor of Georgia and president of the Dale Coal Company who ran numerous coal mines in the state. The song was covered by the Grateful Dead and was one of the first songs the band played live, title: Jesse Fuller text: had been stolen while he was on tour) are in the possession of the Smithsonian Institution. Bob Dylan covered Fuller's "You're No Good" on his debut album in 1962. According to his biographer David Dalton, Dylan borrowed the idea of using a harmonica rack from Fuller and imitated Fuller's "gravelly vocal style." Fuller's songs have also been covered by Johnny Cash ("The Legend of John Henry"), Grateful Dead ("The Monkey and the Engineer" and "Beat It On Down the Line"), Hot Tuna, Peter, Paul and Mary, Janis Joplin, Jim Croce ("San Francisco Bay Blues"), Don Partridge ("San Francisco Bay Blues", title: Right Down the Line text: Right Down the Line "Right Down the Line" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty. Released as a single in the summer of 1978, it reached #12 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 and #8 on "Cash Box".<ref name="Cash Box Top 100 10/28/78"></ref> It was the second release from Rafferty's "City to City" LP as the follow-up to his first major hit as a solo artist, "Baker Street". "Right Down the Line" was a bigger adult contemporary hit, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at number one in the U.S. In Canada, the song reached number five on title: Down to the Line (Bachman–Turner Overdrive song) text: Down to the Line (Bachman–Turner Overdrive song) "Down to the Line" is a 1975 song written by Randy Bachman, with Kim Fowley, Mark Anthony and Vincent Furnier (better known as Alice Cooper). It was first recorded by Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO) as a non-album single and released in November 1975, just ahead of their December 1975 album "Head On". The lead vocal is provided by Randy Bachman. It was the only non-album single released by BTO, though it was included on some later releases of the "Head On" album in CD format. "Down to the Line" just missed