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A video of Tennessee history. The Tennessee Theme song Rocky Top. There is so much spirit in Tennessee. Atlanta artist Corey Barksdale video about state of Tennessee. Corey Barksdale has lived in Atlanta for about 15 years and has become one of Atlanta's premier artist. Corey Barksdale has exhibited his artwork at the Atlanta Dogwood festival, Decatur Art Festival, Virginia-Highlands Art Festival, National Black Art Festival, Atlanta Jazz Festival, Artsplosure in Raleigh North Carolina, Art Festival in Paducah, Kentucky, One of a Kind Show in Chicago, etc. Decatur, GA artist Corey Barksdale has painted for audiences in the city of Atlanta,
This video was created by Atlanta & Decatur Fine Artist Corey Barksdale. Please visit Corey's website. www.coreybarksd...
The song was written by a married couple, songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. They wrote "Rocky Top" in only ten minutes in 1967. The Bryants were working in Gatlinburg on a collection of slow-tempo songs for a project for Archie Campbell and Chet Atkins. Writing the fast-paced "Rocky Top" served as a temporary diversion for them. Recorded by the Osborne Brothers in 1967, the song was a top 40 hit on the country music charts in early 1968.
Although a staple of their concerts, the song did not achieve mass popularity until Lynn Anderson had a hit with it in 1970, and when the "Pride of the Southland" University of Tennessee marching band used it for one of their drills in 1972. The song was very popular and was officially adopted as a state song in 1982. In the 1970s, the song achieved such popularity among bar crowds that the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, old-time band the Red Clay Ramblers [1] national tours included a crowd-pleasing satire informally titled "Play 'Rocky Top' (or I'll Punch Your Lights Out.)"[2]
The original "Rocky Top" song describes a place called Rocky Top, Tennessee, which is one of the three peaks of Thunderhead Mountain in Tennessee (located in the Smoky Mountains) in the eastern part of the state. The peak is actually located along the border between Tennessee and North Carolina.[3][4]
Despite its fast and upbeat tempo, the song's first verse is actually a lament over a failed love affair and a vanishing way of life. The song's second verse is an ode to two apparent revenuers and the illegal production of alcoholic beverages by moonshining, with a reference to "looking for a moonshine still." These are all common country music themes. With its good-natured regional references to a carefree lifestyle, the singing of "Rocky Top" by Tennessee college students and alumni at sports venues such as Neyland Stadium is well established. The University of Tennessee has been granted a perpetual license to play the song as much and as often as success on the field dictates by the copyright holders, House of Bryant.
Contrary to popular belief, "Rocky Top" is not UT's official fight song, although it is so closely identified with the university that many believe this to be the case. UT's official fight song is a radically different tune called "Here's To Old Tennessee", adapted from the Yale University fight song "Down the Field".
"Operation Rocky Top" was the FBI's code name for a public corruption investigation into the Tennessee state government in the late 1980s which resulted in the eventual suicide of the Tennessee Secretary of State, Gentry Crowell, and the incarceration of several other individuals, most notably state House Majority Leader Tommy Burnette. The focus of the investigation was the illegal sale of bingo licenses.
The jam band Phish played "Rocky Top" regularly from 1987 to 2003. There have been additional cover versions of the song by such country music artists as Dolly Parton, Conway Twitty, and Billie Jo Spears. It can also be known as the official fight song of David Webb, a noted band director in Central Virginia at Jefferson Forest High.
I love old black and white photographs......so stoic!
I'm from Canada and i love Tennessee, what a beautiful state, friendly people and Nashville is soooo underrated.....good to see peeps suppporting hockey!!
What a fantastic video! I'm a northern girl, but I've always loved country music this tune especially. The video images show a wonderful tribute to a beautiful state and hard working, honest people. Thanks - this is on my favorites!
I'm a northerner but I've always loved this tune and the video is a wonderful and historical testiment to a hard working, tough, class of Americans. Thanks!
I'm a northern gal but I've always loved this song and this video is a wonderful historical journey. Thanks I enjoyed it very much.
Rocky Top is the greatest song on earth! If you don't like it, we'll kick your ass to the swamps in FL or to the worst state ever...AL
this here song is the bomb!!!!! GO COUNTRY!!!! this song is awsome! adding it to my favs!
I'm a northerner but this has always been my favorite country song. It rocks! The pictorials in this video are great - they are interesting, historical and tell a poignant yet upbeat story of tough, determined people living the simple life. SISU!
Take it from a girl who lives and was born in tennessee. If you could went up to rocky top you would be absulutley amazed. It is so beautiful. I live there on rocky top. It is really greatly awesome. I'm telling the truth here to people.
Greatest college fight song of all times.
this is one of my all time favorite songs... but people are people no matter where you go. interpret that at your discretion
Fantastic! I was born there, but only stayed 3 days. LOL But I'm American by birth, and Southern by the Grace of God!
Oh, one more thing!
War Eagle!
Wonderful pictures. Liked the marching band too. I love the city I live in but sometimes I miss the hills and forests of the Midwest. Not quite as picturesque as the Smokies but still nice.
This song was inspired and written about a spot in the woods at kingfield community near leapers fork in middle tn. He called it rocky top. His place to get away from everyday life.
fantastic tribute to a great song and beautiful, hard working people!! Thanks - from a northern gal
Just came across this and it was produced by GA artist, Corey Barksdale. I happen to be in GA and missing beautiful ole Rocky Top. The history write up is great and a must read for any Vol Fan. I grew up in Knoxville and Kingsport...never knew the history behind the song. Great addition at the end - the UT Pride of the Southland Band. There is nothing greater than standing in the awesome UT Stadium listening to the band play Rocky Top and then the school song. Go Vols!!!
This makes me want to visit Tennessee:)
Tennessee is beautiful, and that's the only good thing I can say about that state.
GO VOLS my blood is orange ! Howdy from East Tennessee ! :D
Very well done you did us tennesseeans proud!!
born and raised in the hills of east tn and proud of it!!!
I'm from Wisconsin, visited the Smoky Mountains a year ago. Most beautiful place on earth.
Tennesee is beautiful, but every time I go there i miss good ole WV. Our waterfalls are beautiful!
I'm from Florida but have a lot of respect for Tennessee and this great song. Who sings this, btw ?
Fantastic!!!!!! Thank you!!!!
i was raised in cannon county tennessee is the best state ever!!!!!! especially this song
I'm a KY fan, but everyone I know likes this song.
soooooooo blessed to live in the hills of northeast TN :-D
take it from a tenessee native born and raised, u wouldnt doubt the beauty of good ole TN. sure the other states are pretty but tn is top state of beautiful homeland to animals humans and ALL.
I remember this song at our gatherings at my nana's private campground. :) great memories! RIP NANA!
I love Tennessee :) :)
I love you Tennessee.
This is an outstanding song. Thanks for posting. I especially like the description and history in the side bar....still Chet Atkins arrangement will always be my favorite :-)
Aloha from Hawaii
Woah, never heard this verstion.
But i love it!
woo!! im happy to live in tennessee....good ole rocky top.. I LOVE TENNESSEE.
Totally Awesome !! VERY well done !!
Thank god i get to go to Tennessee next week im sick of Georgia its to crowded i wanta go back to sevierville and up around there i miss them moutains and driving that tractor on my grandpa's farm
I think one swig of good moonshine and you would "stand on that rock where Moses stood" lol
koolest kountry song EVER!
@I lived there too! But we had to move cause we needed to find a new job. Now we live in Missouri. But I miss that town so much!
every year when it was football time my uncle calvin would be screaming "sum of a ...." when things would be going to hell in the game he died earlier this year and wasn't here for this season so of course i would pick up where he left off and did it all season for the Vols. and for the IN COLTS...miss you much Uncle R.I.P.
love Tn, will always be a Tennessean girl, i love on the east side so it is rocky mountains from where im from
I like this video...
An Ohioan sitten in a cabin in Sevierville, TN....I love this shit!
I am from China, but TN ROCKS!
And, I love Nashvages!!
Wish That I was on Ol' Rocky Top
such wholesome people!
Hometown=Kingsport Tennessee,
Love it(:
Thank god i get to go to Tennessee next week im sick of Georgia its to crowded i wanta go back to sevierville and up around there i miss them moutains
nice feel to the video, thanks.
i love tennessee always
ROCKY TOP TENNESSEE!
yee haw from knoxville
Hell yeah!
Yes, you may be too ignorant to know this, but a Kentuckian wrote Rocky Top. A transplanted Kentuckian wrote The Tennessee Waltz . I love Tennessee too. But I'm a proud Kentuckian.
oh tennesse the place where i was born raised and still livin here never moved out the best place ever if i do say so my self
my great great great grandpa was one of the first 1000 people to be in tennessee!
who sings this version, i really love it
This is a really good video!! My brother and I got addicted to this song. I really love. Everyone that is in my family likes this song. Do you like it?
YEE HAW!!
Go Vols
im proud of living here. :D
Im from little streach of road called springfield tennesse cant even find it on google maps
Har-har!
Vols just beat South Carolina, woooo!
good job +1
Go Vols!
When I went to 4-H Camp we sang this EVERY DAY. haha
Hometown=Unicoi=The greatest
its good to make a video about the state i live born and rasied! thx
I like this modern version of Rocky Top... Been looking for it. Who's it by?
i'm a still a screed of the people from here.
Osborne Brothers. Classic
Found it! Burgess Falls.
This is Hanna, on my brothers utubee, well anyway, I know a dance to this song :) Due to cheerleading lol :)
@haydensrollercoaster ive been there, I've got family in both KY and TN. They are the too darn finest states in the country!
Har-har
Go VOLS...a loyal appalachian boy
Who on here is from Rocky Top, TN.?
What and where is that waterfall at 0:22? Amazing!
i haven't been to tn, since my daddy died. he was from shelbyville.
Where can I get this MP3!?!??!!?
Tennessee oorah!
Is there anywhere I can get this MP3???
I got into that corn jar, and Saw a UFO in those hills... LOL.. I'm telling the truth. LOL.
Anton
I sing this song in choir
Can I find the full version of the fight song version at the end on TH-cam?
Is there a website where these photos came from?
my dad was from shelbyville.
i was born and eaised here and i am not leavin ....rocky top baby lol !!
pfffttt. You can keep Nashville. It is all about the Smokies. =P
Maryville,Tenn.!
who did this version?
i will be there on tennessee whit my cowgirl
was crompton a joke with 4 tds?
2:31 was that Popcorn
I think its the Osburns
@xoKatieNicolexo my grandma and dad r from kingsport
yyyyyyyyyyyiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahuuuuuu
Is this Reba singing? Sounds like her.......