Notable Recordings
A 1955 novelty recording of the song by The Singing Dogs reached #22 on the US Billboard Pop Singles chart. A humorous recording of "Oh! Susanna" was the last track on the second album by The Byrds, Turn! Turn! Turn!, in 1965. James Taylor also included a version of the song on his second album, Sweet Baby James, in 1970. A recording of the song is also featured as the first track on Americana, an album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse released in June, 2012.
In 1963, The Big Three recorded Tim Rose's new arrangement of the song as "The Banjo Song". The Dutch band Shocking Blue, in turn, used the new arrangement with completely different lyrics for their 1969 hit "Venus", which has subsequently been covered by many other musicians.
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