From:   "Dik de Heer" 
Date:  Tue Feb 5, 2002  1:18 am
Subject:  Born To Be With You : Claude King
 
CLAUDE KING

Born 5 February, 1923, on a farm in Keithville, Louisiana

Country singer / guitarist

Although King recorded for a variety of labels in the 50's (first for
Gotham in 1952), his commercial breakthrough did not come until
he signed with Columbia in 1961. All his country chart hits (nineteen
during the 1961-1971 period) were on this label. The most famous of
these is "Wolverton Mountain" (co-written with Merle Kilgore) from 1962,
which topped the Billboard country charts for nine weeks and also
crossed over to the pop charts (# 6). The song is about a real man
(Clifton Clowers) and a real place in Arkansas.
All Music Guide and Wayne Jancik's "Billboard Book Of One-Hit Wonders"
claim that King died in 1983. This is not correct, he is still with us.
Clifton Clowers, the mean "Wolverton Mountain" man, died August 14,
1994. He was 102.

CD: Wolverton Mountain (Collectables).