I've Been Everywhere

Album: The Essential Hank Snow (1962)
Charted: 68
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Geoff Mack
    Publisher: Anthem Entertainment, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 23rd 1962, "I've Been Everywhere" by Hank Snow entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #88; the following week it fell off the chart, then the week after it re-entered the chart at #89; and on November 11th, 1962 it peaked at #68 {for 1 week} and spent a grand total of 8 weeks on the Top 100...
    And on October 28th, 1962 it reached #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart; it was preceded and then succeeded at #1 by "Mama Sang A Song" by Bill Anderson...
    Hank Snow had one other Top 100 record, "Rockin', Rollin' Ocean", it reached #87 in 1960, but between 1949 and 1967 he had seventy-three records make the Billboard Country Singles chart, with six of them reaching #1...
    Clarence Eugene 'Hank' Snow, The Singing Ranger, passed away on December 20th, 1999 at the age of 85...
    May he R.I.P.
  • Alan from Sault Ste. Marie, OnNames a small town near North Bay Ontario on Highway 17 called Mattawa. Might be 1,000 people living there.
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