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50 Years Ago This Week Episode 298 is now up at Radio Free Brooklyn. In this episode from June 22, 2021, Jim plays the Top 40 debuts of "Here Comes That Rainy D...ay Feeling Again" by The Fortunes, "Mr. Big Stuff" by Jean Knight, and "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor. https://radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/50-years-ago-this-week/ See more

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Tonight on 50 Years Ago This Week, the Top 40 debuts of "Get It On" by Chase, "Draggin' the Line" by Tommy James, and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver. Tonight, 8-10 PM EDT, on RadioFreeBrooklyn.org .

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Fifty years and two days ago The Raiders hit No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)." Four week...s later the song went to No. 1, where it spent just one week. It was written by John D. Loudermilk, first recorded by Marvin Rainwater in 1959, and then by Don Fardon in 1968. A well-known story told by Loudermilk is that when he was asked by the Viva! NashVegas radio show about the origins of the song "Indian Reservation," he fabricated the story that he wrote the song after his car was snowed in by a blizzard and he was taken in by a small group of Cherokee Indians. A self-professed prankster, he spun the tale that a Cherokee chieftain, "Bloody Bear Tooth," asked him to make a song about his people's plight on the Trail of Tears, even going so far as to claim that he had later been awarded "the first medal of the Cherokee Nation," not for writing the song, but for his "blood." He then came up with the detail that on that day the tribe revealed that his "great-great grandparents, Homer and Matilda Loudermilk" were listed on the Dawes Rolls (the citizenship rolls of the Nation). Had this detail of his tall tale been true, he would have been a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, which he was not. Paul Revere and the Raiders shortened their name to The Raiders in 1970. Founder/organist Paul Revere was still with the group, and promoted this single heavily, although he does not play on it. See more