Grand Coulee Dam (song) the British pop charts in April 1958, rising to number six on the chart. Donegan was featured performing the song in the movie "Six-Five Special", a spin-off of the British TV show of the same name. One critic has written: Grand Coulee Dam (song) "Grand Coulee Dam" is an American folk song recorded in 1941 by Woody Guthrie. He wrote it during a brief period when he was commissioned by the Bonneville Power Administration to write songs as part of a documentary film project about the dam and related projects. The song was part of the "Columbia River Ballads", a
Coulee ridgetops transitioning into tallgrass prairie when not turned into pasture or used for row crops. Coulees provide shelter from wind and concentrated water supplies to plants which would otherwise struggle to survive in the xeric sagebrush steppe. Trees are often found in riparian habitats along streams in coulees and at the base of their walls. Coulee </div> Coulee, or coulée ( or ) is a term applied rather loosely to different landforms, all of which refer to a kind of valley or drainage zone. The word "coulee" comes from the Canadian French "coulée", from the French word "couler" meaning "to