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The song became engrained in musical culture and led to some other instances of it being copied, possibly unknowingly. It proved this was an original piece of art," said Del Bryant. Out of all these musicologist experts they hired, none could find another song with same melody before Rocky Top. My parents sued and the attorneys for Warner Brothers tried to argue the melody was just traditional and not something original or unique to Rocky Top. If you speed the song up, it is clearly the same melody as Rocky Top. "The song 'You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma' used the same melody at a different tempo. So, we bleed orange."ĭel Bryant drives the custom Chevy Blazer that honors his parents' song Rocky Top. And, of course, now we have the Rocky Top Institute partnership with the university.
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My mom enjoyed going to the football games. My brother's daughter went to the University of Tennessee. "I didn't go there, but I have a daughter who went to the University of Tennessee. Julian turned it into such a source of pride for the school," said Bryant. "I think it would have been really hard to go somewhere else had my parents already written Rocky Top and Dr. He concedes the decision to attend Miami would have been more complicated had Rocky Top already achieved its iconic cultural status. I wouldn't be here and be in the business if not for my folks being so successful and then just surrounding myself and my brother with it throughout our lives and making us a part of it."ĭel Bryant is an alumnus of the University of Miami and was in college when his parents wrote Rocky Top. I beat my parents in the charts and that was enough for me," laughed Bryant. My parents also had a song on the charts at the time by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
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It was number one on the charts in Knoxville. "It was called, 'I Cheated On A Good Woman's Love' and was recorded by Billy 'Crash' Craddock on the soundtrack for Convoy. Del Bryant shows off the custom Chevy Blazer that pays homage to his parents and their song Rocky Top.