50+ Music<p>"Green, Green Grass of Home", written by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ClaudeCurlyPutmanJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClaudeCurlyPutmanJr</span></a>, and first recorded by singer <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JohnnyDarrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnnyDarrell</span></a> in 1965, is a country song made popular by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PorterWagoner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PorterWagoner</span></a> the same year, when it reached No. 4 on the Country chart. It was also recorded by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BobbyBare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BobbyBare</span></a> and by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JerryLeeLewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JerryLeeLewis</span></a>, who included it in his album <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CountrySongsForCityFolks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CountrySongsForCityFolks</span></a> (later re-issued as All Country). <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TomJones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TomJones</span></a> learned the song from Lewis' version and, in 1966, he had a worldwide No. 1 hit with it. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYjBpgz2lus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=nYjBpgz2lus</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>