Topic: Damn The pusherman
Does anyone know who wrote the original Pusherman back in the late 60s or early 70s??
Not the Bible pushin man...
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Hoyt Axton recorded by Steppenwolf
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I know it as a Steppenwolf song also.
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The title is just, The Pusher. My buddy used to have 3 8-tracks with this song on them. We would get them all cued up and drive The Loop in Lancaster PA. An 8-track player sitting on the seat of his dad's station wagon would be cranked and the windows rolled down. We were such rebels! ;^)
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Hoyt also wrote "Jeramiah Was a Bullfrog" and his mother and grandmother wrote "Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog" for Elvis
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Very intersitng I am impressed with Hoyt Axtons songwriting. I never knew he wrote so many hit songs.
my papy said son your going too drive me too drinking if you dont stop driving that Hot Rod Lincoln!! Cmdr cody and his lost planet airman
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I did not know Hoyt wrote that either. I, also used to drive around with my buddies and the windows down, and smoked, I mean listened to that song cranked right up. Those were the days my friend. The long version.
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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller composed houndog for Big mama Thornton before Elvis got a hold of it 
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Hoyt also wrote "Jeramiah Was a Bullfrog" and his mother and grandmother wrote "Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog" for Elvis
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Ooops, maybe it was Blue Moon Over Kentucky, he talked about it one time when he was being interviewed. He's since passed.
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I remember Hoyt Axton well I was singing with the Chambers bros. at the Troubador in LA he got his start there and hit it big with Greenback Dollar very talented composer
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