Comments on: Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) ~ Asleep at the Wheel http://djallyn.org/archives/2885 Music, Videos, Humor, and Assorted Crap served (almost) Daily Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:35:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: DJ Allyn http://djallyn.org/archives/2885/comment-page-1#comment-3421 DJ Allyn Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:05:23 +0000 http://djallyn.org/?p=2885#comment-3421 A lot of people think Commander Cody was the original. While he covered the song, he is but one of many who did the song. Merle Haggard wrote the song for Tex Avery in 1947. I think this is the oldest video recording of the song done in 1947: <center><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dbKQklwNScA&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dbKQklwNScA&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object></center> A lot of people think Commander Cody was the original. While he covered the song, he is but one of many who did the song.

Merle Haggard wrote the song for Tex Avery in 1947. I think this is the oldest video recording of the song done in 1947:

]]> By: dcs2244 http://djallyn.org/archives/2885/comment-page-1#comment-3420 dcs2244 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:08:23 +0000 http://djallyn.org/?p=2885#comment-3420 Heard the original the other day on XM... Heard the original the other day on XM…

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