Gone Hollywood Songs: Philadelphia Lawyer

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Off to Hollywood we go! Here’s the next song on my list of tunes that have a Hollywood reference in them. And we call on an earlier singer’s dad for the songwriting credit on this one. Philadelphia Lawyer - Maddox Brother and Rose I have mentioned this before, but Rose Maddox is my favorite female country singer. That probably shocks the daylights out of all of them, because you’ve never heard of her. Well, that’s just weird old me. One of my trips through Alabama included a stop in Boaz, where the Maddox family hailed from. Before Buck Owens, and before Merle Haggard, there was the Maddox Brothers. They helped put Bakersfield on the map when it comes to music. Here they are doing a Woody Guthrie classic. You may remember earlier in the countdown, on the Los Angeles side, I used Woody’s son, Arlo, with the song “Coming Into Los Angeles.” If you’ve never wrote this song before, let’s just say that Wild Bill was a forerunner of Chuck Norris! What a great song. Philadelphia Lawyer Written by Woody Guthrie Recorded by the Maddox Brothers and Rose Released as a single, 1949 [b]HOLLYWOOD LYRICS:P/b] A great Philadelphia lawyer was in love with a Hollywood maid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IkdItjeSy8