"Which recording artist, originally a folk singer, had top ten hits in the early 1970's with ""There but for fortune"" and ""The night they drove old Dixie down""?"
There but for Fortune (song) There but for Fortune (song) "There but for Fortune" is a song by American folk musician Phil Ochs. Ochs wrote the song in 1963 and recorded it twice, for "New Folks Volume 2" (Vanguard, 1964) and "Phil Ochs in Concert" (Elektra, 1966). Joan Baez also recorded "There but for Fortune" in 1964, and her version of the song became a chart hit. "There but for Fortune" consists of four verses, each one of which ends with the line "there but for fortune may go you or I". The first verse is about a prisoner. The second verse describes a hobo.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down recorded by conservative singer Willie Cater. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song written by Robbie Robertson and originally recorded by the Canadian roots rock group the Band in 1969 and released on their eponymous second album. Levon Helm provided the lead vocals. The song is a first-person narrative relating the economic and social distress experienced by the protagonist, a poor white Southerner, during the last year of the American Civil War, when George Stoneman was raiding southwest Virginia. Frequently appearing on lists of the best rock songs of all