Re: Wreck on the Highway

[James Nelson]

>>> Douglas Neal asks:
 
>Does anyone out there know who originally wrote and recorded >"Wreck on the Highway"? 
> I understand it was credited to Acuff->Rose, but the original author was someone 
>else.  What is the first >known recording of this song?

It was written by Dorsey Dixon, a North Carolina cotton mill worker and one half of 
the hillbilly duo, The Dixon Brothers. They first recorded the song as "I Didn't Hear 
Anybody Pray" on Bluebird 7440 in the mid-thirties.

Jim Nelson