Question: Who sang on the banks of the river?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: Who sang background on the 1959 song with lyrics on the banks of the river?
Who famously sang on the banks of the Wabash on his 1959 album?
Who famously sang lead on the 1959 song with lyrics on the banks of the river?
answer: Jiles Perry Richardson
The Big Bopper
Richardson, George Jones, and the session's producer Bill Hall
Bing Crosby
Johnny Preston
Natural Questions answer: Johnny Preston (from the Wikipedia article "Running Bear")