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787: 802:, is named the "Big Rock Candy Mountain". In 1928, after the song had been released, some Utah residents jokingly placed a sign at the base of the hills labeling it the "Big Rock Candy Mountain", along with a sign next to a nearby spring proclaiming it "Lemonade Springs". The Big Rock Candy Mountain Resort currently sits at the base of the hills offering lodging and an assortment of high adventure activities through Big Rock Adventure. The resort is also a major hub on the infamous Paiute ATV trail. 721: 46: 293:" and "The Appleknocker's Lament". Other popular itinerant songs of the day such as "Hobo's Paradise", "Hobo Heaven", "Sweet Potato Mountains", and "Little Streams of Whiskey" likely served as inspiration, as they mention concepts similar to those in "Big Rock Candy Mountain". "The Big Rock Candy Mountains", along with its A-side "The Bum Song—No. 2", was first recorded on September 6, 1928, in 152: 1055:, when Lureen is speaking to Ennis on the phone after Jack's death, she says that she was never sure if Brokeback Mountain was a real location: "knowing Jack, it was probably some pretend place, where bluebirds sing and there's a whiskey spring..."--the bluebirds and whiskey parts of this line being paraphrases from "Big Rock Candy Mountain." 1045:
is a version of the song with modified lyrics, referring to "a place called Candied Island" instead of "Big Rock Candy Mountain". The series itself echoes the song, as it features two hobo-like characters searching for the fabled paradise of Candied
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and Company recorded this as The Big Rock Candy Mountains, on Edison Diamond Disc No. 52472-L, in February 1929. This version is now available on cylinder record, released in November 2016 by the Vulcan Cylinder Record
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The song was first recorded by McClintock, also known by his "hobo" name of Haywire Mac. McClintock said that he wrote the song, though it was likely partially based on other ballads, including "
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mountain". In later years, when McClintock appeared in court as part of a copyright dispute, he cited the original words of the song, the last stanza of which was:
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trees". McClintock said that he wrote the song in 1895, based on tales from his youth hoboing through the United States while working for the railroad as a
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country music charts. But it achieved more widespread popularity in 1949 when a sanitized version intended for children was re-recorded by
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legal thriller, Jacob Wood has to learn the words of the song for his son's birthday. This does not occur in the novel.
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to date was the biggest success for the song in the post-1954 "rock era", having reached No. 102 on Billboard's chart.
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Other rock formations in the United States have also borrowed the name of the song; the largest exposed rock in the
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The lyrics of the missing line have not been made public; in the released version the entire verse was omitted.
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did a version of the song, which was included in a special compilation by Columbia Records of children's songs.
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Bacon Cheddar Ranch sandwich. In the commercial almost all of the promises of the song are shown in detail.
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in the 1890s. Originally the song described a child being recruited into hobo life by tales of the "big
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Before recording the song, McClintock cleaned it up considerably from the version he sang as a street
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has occasionally used the song as an intro to his song "Candy Mountain Run" in live performances.
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released the single on November 16, 1928, with the artist name "Mac (Harry McClintock)".
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trilogy, a planet named the Big Rock Candy Mountain is the location for several scenes.
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and his family are traveling to Rock Candy Mountain to find the Hobo King's treasure.
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is also called "Big Rock Candy Mountain" because of its colored stripes resembling a
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includes the famous refrain (with "peppermint trees"), but not the rest of the song.
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novella series, the Big Rock Candy Mountain is portrayed as the hobo afterlife.
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commercial, although the lyrics were changed to reference the Burger King
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Hudson Shad, an acapella group, recorded a version in their 2002 album,
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Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias
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Nowhere in America: the Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias
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In the 2012-2014 Cartoon Network show, adapted from a YouTube series, "
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The song appears in the background of a 2021 TV advertisement for the
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in 1957 (Track 2, Side 2 in the American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 LP).
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recorded a more family-friendly version of the song for their album
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The song was not popularized until 1939, when it peaked at #1 on
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The Ives version of the song is played in the season 4 episode "
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sang a kid's version of the song on her 2004 children's album
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performed a version of this tune on his 1975 children's album
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included a children's version of the song on his 1988 album
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Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
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During the first dream sequence in the 2011 horror film
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The song "Candy Mountain Cave", from the online video
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