Timeless song still appealing
February 10, 2012 6:39 PM
In your article in the Yuma Sun about ball player Jeff Hutton, you characterized him as being “the baseball version of Johnny Cash’s famous song ‘I’ve Been Everywhere’.”
With the winter population of the Yuma area arguably 95 percent over the age of 70, plenty are old enough to know that this Australian song was made famous in North America by Nova Scotia native Hank Snow using U.S. town names, over 30 years before Cash revived it.
The timeless ballad obviously has appealed through generations and will be due for another revival in about 10 years by my estimate.
Roland Shanks
Foothills
