The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine may refer to:
Sidney D. Mitchell
Sidney D. Mitchell( June 15, 1888 in Baltimore, Maryland – February 25, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) was a Hollywood film industry lyricist and composer.
He is best known for his collaborations with Lew Pollack on movie scores at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1930s and 1940s.
Together with Louis Alter, Mitchell was nominated for an Oscar in 1937 for the song" A Melody from the Sky" which was in the 1936 motion picture" The Trail of the Lonesome Pine".
He contributed many songs to other films, and his work continues to be featured to the present day.
He also served as a screenwriter for three movies and a director for the film" Umpa" in 1933.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1923 film)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Charles Maigne.
Based on the play and novel of the same name, the film starred Mary Miles Minter in her final film role.
" The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" film is now considered lost.
Three other adaptions exist, including earlier 1914 and 1916 silent versions as well as a 1936, an all color and sound film.
Curly Ray Cline
Curly Ray Cline( January 10, 1923 – August 19, 1997) was an American bluegrass fiddler from West Virginia known for his work with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers and Ralph Stanley.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Harry Carroll
Harry Carroll (November 28, 1892, in Atlantic City, New Jersey – December 26, 1962, in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania) was an American songwriter, pianist, and composer.
Ronnie Bowman
Ronnie Bowman( born July 9, 1961) is an American singer and composer of bluegrass music.
Besides his solo albums, he is known for his work with the Lonesome River Band.
Lonesome Pine District
The Lonesome Pine District is a high school conference of the Virginia High School League which draws its members from the western part of Southwest Virginia.
The district's name comes from The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (song)
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is a popular song published in 1913, with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll.
Inspired by John Fox, Jr.'s 1908 novel of the same title, the song expresses the singer's love for his girl, June, who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
The chorus is:
It appears to have been first recorded in New York on 28 March 1913 by the Spanish-American tenor Manuel Romain and released in June of that year on issue number 1743 of the Edison Blue Amberol Record label.
The song was featured in Laurel and Hardy's 1937 film "Way Out West".
It was performed by Laurel and Hardy with The Avalon Boys and featured a section sung in deep bass by Chill Wills, lip-synced by Stan Laurel in the film, with the last line in falsetto
(sung by Rosina Lawrence) after Ollie hit Stan on the head with a mallet.
This stage routine was performed by actors Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as part of the 2019 biographical film "Stan & Ollie".
In 1975, at a time when Laurel and Hardy films were popular on British television, the UK branch of United Artists Records produced an album of dialogue and songs, " Laurel & Hardy – The Golden Age Of Hollywood Comedy", that included "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine".
Released as a single, the song reached No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, thanks largely to being championed by disc jockey John Peel on his Radio 1 evening show.
The song was also recorded by Vivian Stanshall and (as "Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia") by Tokyo Blade.
The song is featured in the stage play
"The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine", and is played during the opening credits of the 1936 film adaptation.
Since 1964, the play has been performed in an outdoor theater in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, hometown of the novel's author: it was designated the "official outdoor drama" by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1994, and is now the sixth longest running outdoor drama in the United States.
The song was the favorite song of Gertrude Stein..
Larry Richardson
Larry Richardson (August 9, 1927- June 17, 2007) was an American bluegrass and old time banjoist and guitarist from Galax, Virginia.
He is known for his work with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys, and the Blue Ridge Boys.
Larry Richardson began his bluegrass career with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers alongside mandolin player Bobby Osborne of Osborne Brothers fame.
These two musicians are credited for transforming the band from western swing to bluegrass music in 1949.
Larry and Bobby left the band after only a year and were replaced by Jimmy and Paul Williams.
After Larry's brief time with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, he joined Bill Monroe as a banjo player from 1950-1951.
He never made a recording as a "Bluegrass Boy".
Larry then went on to work for Carl and J.P. Sauceman who ran a bluegrass show on WREN (AM).
In 1956, Larry was featured on a record that changed the way many people hear and play the banjo.
American Banjo Scruggs Style which showcased the many banjo players who had adopted Earl Scruggs' famous "three finger roll" style of picking.
On the record, Richardson played a rousing and inventive version of "Little Maggie" that influenced any number of up-and-coming banjo players in the late 1950s.
Soon after the release of this record, Larry relocated to Low Gap, North Carolina.
From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s Larry recorded with the Blue Ridge Boys who focused on a traditional bluegrass sound.
In the latter 30 years of his life, Larry became an evangelist and spent the rest of his life preaching and singing bluegrass gospel.
He lived in Lake Butler, Florida until he died of colon cancer.

Question: Where did the composer of song The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine (Song) die?