"Green, Green Grass of Home" | ||||
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Single by Porter Wagoner | ||||
from the album On the Road: The Porter Wagoner Show | ||||
B-side | "Dooley" | |||
Released | July 1965 | |||
Recorded | June 7, 1965 | |||
Studio | RCA Studio B, Nashville | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 2:24 | |||
Label | RCA Victor | |||
Songwriter(s) | Curly Putman[1] | |||
Porter Wagoner singles chronology | ||||
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"Green, Green Grass of Home" | ||||
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Single by Tom Jones | ||||
from the album Green, Green Grass of Home | ||||
B-side | "Promise Her Anything" | |||
Released | November 1966 | |||
Genre | Country pop | |||
Length | 3:05 | |||
Label | Decca Records F22511[1] | |||
Songwriter(s) | Curly Putman[1] | |||
Producer(s) | Peter Sullivan[1] | |||
Tom Jones singles chronology | ||||
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"Green, Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., and first recorded by singer Johnny Darrell in 1965, is a country song made popular by Porter Wagoner the same year, when it reached No. 4 on the Country chart.[2] It was also recorded by Bobby Bare and by Jerry Lee Lewis, who included it in his album Country Songs for City Folks (later re-issued as All Country). Tom Jones learned the song from Lewis' version and, in 1966, he had a worldwide No. 1 hit with it.