N&W in 1903 -- Engineer off the N&W

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I first heard my grandmother's version when  I was 3 or 4 years old.  She played a banjo and harmonica and had some little dancing men that she operated by tapping a board with her foot.

Sam Putney

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  I first heard Johnny Mercer's version . . .

  EdK
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    EdK-
    Joseph Andrew Broady was a native of Saltville and his
    N&W seniority was on the Pocahontas Division.  He was
    33 at the time of the wreck.

    "Wreck of the Old 97"  - the most popular version was
    penned by David Graves George, Southern's operator
    at Franklin Jct., Va.  (now Gretna).   A customer in
    a tonsorial parlor in Franklin Jct. suggested putting the
    words to the tune "The Ship that Never Returned".

    George never had the song copyrighted.  In 1924,
    Vernon Dahlhart's recording sold over 6,000,000 copies.
    George initially won $65,295 for his authorship, but this
    was lost in litigation that went all the way to the
    Supreme Court.
                                                Harry Bundy  





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