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"Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" is a #popular song, with lyrics written and music adapted in 1950 by #PeteSeeger and #LeeHays of #theWeavers. It became a US hit in a version recorded by the Weavers in 1951, and an even bigger hit in 1957 when recorded by #JimmieRodgers. #FrankieVaughan also had a top ten hit with the song in the UK in 1958. The tune was adapted from #LeadBelly's "If It Wasn't for Dicky" (1937).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFhlqZKfFM
#OnThisDay in 1986, Inaugural class of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: #ChuckBerry; #JamesBrown; #RayCharles; #SamCooke; #FatsDomino; The Everly Brothers; #BuddyHolly; #JerryLeeLewis; #ElvisPresley; #LittleRichard; #RobertJohnson; #JimmieRodgers; Jimmy Yancey; Alan Freed; John Hammond; and Sam Phillips.
#OnThisDay in 2021, (James Frederick) #JimmieRodgers, American pop singer and guitarist ("Honey Comb" ; “Oh-Oh, I’m Falling In Love Again”), died of kidney disease at 87. 
#RIP
"Sugartime" is a #popular #song written by #CharliePhillips and #OdisEchols, and published in 1957. The biggest hit version was by the #McGuireSisters, whose recording of it topped the Most Played chart in February 1958. It was also the second number 1 #Billboard single for the trio after 1954's #Sincerely. The song refers to the #JimmieRodgers tune "#Honeycomb", which had been recorded a few months earlier in 1957. A version by #JohnnyCash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRvEHn6fKWE
"Blue Moon of Kentucky" is a #waltz written in 1945 by #bluegrass musician #BillMonroe and recorded by his band, the Blue Grass Boys. Some think the origins may trace back to "Roll Along, #Kentucky Moon", a similar waltz recorded 20 years prior by #JimmieRodgers. The song has since been recorded by many artists, including #ElvisPresley and #PaulMcCartney. The song is the official bluegrass song of Kentucky. In 2002.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4syA9aNnNa0
Thanks to @neurothing's, we got #TheSickness for #ThursdayFiveList !
1/ Jimmie Rodgers - T.B. Blues (1931, 
) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcVOYPUL5S4
"Gee but that graveyard is a lonesome place
Lord but that graveyard is a lonesome place
They put you on your back
Throw that mud down in your face
I've got the TB [Tuberculosis] blues" 
2/ Ill Repute - Fill It Up (What Happens Next? classic album, 1984, ) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw-mprjhhbk
3/ Demented Are Go - Crazy Horses (on In Sickness & In Health, 1986, 
) : https://youtu.be/jBAGZT6fJbk?feature=shared
4/ Girl In Red - hornylovesickmess (on If I Could Make It Go Quiet , 2021, 
) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFcdr1osJPE
#GirlInRed #QueerMusicians #HunterSchafer
5/ Jimmie Rodgers - Whippin' That Old T.B. (recorded in 1933, the year he died from it) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3SkA5NuP8