On Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 11:11:42 PM UTC-7, stonethecrows555 wrote:

On Jul 26, 11:08 am, "B...@cool.com" <mysteriousstran...@unknown.net>
wrote:

About forty years ago someone lent me a cassette tape of a fairly
big-name mainstream singer like Tony Bennett or Frankie Laine that
had, of all things, a version of North to Alaska on it. It was a
fairly lively version of the song but what I particularly remember is
that the hero was NOT Sam McCord but a *Polish* name, such as Sam
Kowalksi! Very strange. I've just downloaded the Frankie Laine version
of the song from one of the Newsgroups and I thought that this would
be the one but it isn't -- Frankie is singing about Sam McCord. I've
just spent a certain amount of time with Google and Bing and I can't
track this down.  Can anyone here give me the name of that artist?

Many thanks!

Hi Bob, a quick search of Napster revealed Johnny Horton.
Sounds like the song from the movie of the same name a fun little
movie, by the way).
Hope this helps!- Stoney

Bob, Kinda late but there is a cover to "North to Alaska" tha I did for Sarah Paylin during the 2008 election. It is titled "She's From Alaska". Write for more infor .
Rich

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