Talk:Rock Island Line

Asch Recodings
I have linked this to Moe Asch. Do you really mean Folkways? Pustelnik 22:22, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Infobox Single request
An infobox for the 1954 Lonnie Donegan recording of "Rock Island Line" was requested at WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/List_of_notable_songs/11.

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Cocaine
I've been told that this song also refers (or, at least, has been used to refer) to snorting lines of cocaine - is there any truth to this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.37.250.195 (talk) 23:37, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

sources!
the underground railroad hypothesis is "cool" i guess but where is the sources? will erase soon if it remains unsourced. Ishmaelblues (talk) 15:28, 22 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I have removed it, according to wikipedia rules. The "reference needed" tags have been there for severals months. 81.131.49.94 (talk) 18:40, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Dead external links to Allmusic website – January 2011
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 * http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=17:1300063~T00C

Song theft by Lonnie Donegan
I've removed some unsourced content from the article about Lonnie Donegan supposedly making a fortune by claiming ownership of RIL in the UK so that UK recordings of the song are credited to him. This doesn't seem to be accurate. Even his own version was credited as "Traditional" in the UK. Maybe there is some controversy about copyright in the US, but this would need sourcing. US releases by Bobby Darin, Stan Freburg and Don Cornell all credited Donegan. But it's not clear exactly how controversial that is. Donegan may have been making money from the publishing rights to a song that wasn't his. But Lead Belly, John Lomax, Johnny Cash and The Weavers, to name a few, did exactly the same thing with the same song. Formerip (talk) 20:25, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Alan Lomax was clearly unhappy with what Donegan had done, but unfortunately my view of this misses out a crucial couple of pages. Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:35, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It's showing me 294 onwards. To summarize, Alan Lomax finds out about Donegan's versions (he also did a number of other Lead Belly covers) and also about a publishing company (not named) that is publishing songs from his book. He goes to see his lawyers, but they tell him there's nothing much he can do. He writes a series of articles setting out why he feels he should be entitled to publishing royalties.
 * So, maybe there is something that can be reported in the article. But what was previously in there, as well as not being accurate, depicted Lomax's claim as legitimate and Donegan as a scoundrel. I can't see anything to support either of those things. Formerip (talk) 21:38, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I remember Donegan claiming in the press -  more than once  -  that all he ever made out of RIL was his £25 recording fee. (Sorry no references). Valetude (talk) 14:31, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

External links modified
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