"Bessie The Heifer" | |
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Song by Jimmy Dickens | |
Released | 1951 |
Songwriter(s) | Jimmy Dickens, Boudleaux Bryant |
"Bessie The Heifer" is an American country-western novelty song written by Jimmy Dickens and Boudleaux Bryant. [1] Performed by Dickens, the song was released by Columbia in 1951 (Columbia 20786). [2] The song was one of Billboard magazine's Country And Western Disk Jockey Picks shortly after it was released. [3] The song has been performed by other musicians such as Wayne Newton and Grant Rogers. Newton sang the song on a 1965 episode of The Lucy Show, "Lucy Discovers Wayne Newton."
The song (and a parody of it called "Melvin the Mollusk") [4] was performed many times at The Adventurers Club in Downtown Disney at Walt Disney World.