Types of Money Top Ten: If Teardrops Were Pennies (#3)

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What a sad night. I was just in Winterset, Iowa last year on my northern west plains vacation. Yesterday it was hit by a tornado. My prayers are with them. For you, another song that has some type of money in the title. Here’s today’s tune. #3: If Teardrops Were Pennies - Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton Note to Linda: Rosemary Clooney recorded this back in the 50s, so you may want to give her version a listen instead. This is the version I grew up with, later discovering the Carl Smith original and the aforementioned cover by George Clooney’s mom. Porter and Dolly were one of the hottest “superstar” duets in country music at the time. That was helped by the fact that Porter had a TV show (where Conway and Loretta did not…in fact, Loretta was the “girl singer” on the Wilburn Brothers’ show!). And, well, with songs like this, too. (Plus, I like Porter as a solo artist….Conway, not so much.) Parton is and Wagoner was good songwriters, so they had a treasure trove of material to draw on from their own songs (like Parton’s “Daddy Was an Old-Time Preacher Man”) as well as pulling treasures like this out of the vaults. PS: there’s an absolutely HILARIOUS Letterman “Top Ten List” that Dolly presented on You Tube, “Dolly Parton’s top ten pet peeves.” One of them was when “some smart aleck introduces me as, ‘Here they are, Dolly Parton!’” If Teardrops Were Pennies Written by Carl Butler Recorded by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton From Love and Music, 1973 I’d be oh so wealthy: