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The House With the Whitewashed Gable

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"The House With the Whitewashed Gable"
Single by Joe Dolan
B-side"Work Day Blues"
Released10 February 1967
Genrecountry
Length2:15
LabelPye
Songwriter(s)Neil Levenson
Joe Dolan singles chronology
"Pretty Brown Eyes"
(1966)
"The House With the Whitewashed Gable"
(1967)
"Tar and Cement"
(1967)

"The House With the Whitewashed Gable" is a 1967 country song written by Neil Levenson and performed by Irish showband singer Joe Dolan and his band, the Drifters.[1][2]

Statue of Joe Dolan in Mullingar

Song history

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The song is based on the Ron Dante song "221 East Maple," with the typically American street address changed to the rural Irish setting of a farmhouse with a gable covered in whitewash.[3]

"The House With the Whitewashed Gable" was released on 10 February 1967, reaching number one in the Irish Singles Chart on 20 February 1967.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "The House with the Whitewashed Gable / Work Day Blues by Joe Dolan - RYM/Sonemic" – via rateyourmusic.com.
  2. ^ https://joedolan.com/the-joe-dolan-story/
  3. ^ Curran, Aidan (December 6, 2023). "Joe Dolan and The Drifters – 'The House With The Whitewashed Gable'".
  4. ^ "Irish Number Ones (@irishnumberones@mastodon.ie)". mastodon.ie.
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