Talk:Wreck on the Highway (Bruce Springsteen song)

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Maintenance Tags[edit]

The maintenance tags cited npov issues and need for more citations. I added footnotes and I believe I addressed the npov issues, so I removed the tags.Rlendog (talk) 01:46, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Older version[edit]

The Dixon Brothers recorded it on 25 January 1938 under the title "I didn't hear nobody pray" (I heard it on the CD "Prayers from Hell", Trikont Records 1999). --79.243.62.208 (talk) 21:11, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And here is the link, where you find this: "They" (the Dixon Brothers) "recorded ... the classic country WEEPER "I Didn't Hear Nobody Pray," which Roy Acuff remade into the megahit "Wreck On The Highway"." So why do you think, Acuff sang it first??? --79.243.54.243 (talk) 18:10, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They are different songs with the same title and similar themes but different lyrics and music.

You can't copyright a song title. eg Lionel Ritchie, Adele, Oasis and Prince all have songs titled "Hello". elwyn5150 (talk) 11:25, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The cause of the accident[edit]

The page states that the narrator witnessed a hit-and-run and that was the cause of the accident and cites a book. Yet the song itself contradicts this - the narrator comes across the scene after the accident and specifically states

"I was riding alone through the drizzling rain

On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane When I came upon a wreck on the highway Now there was blood and glass all over And there was nobody there but me". elwyn5150 (talk) 11:00, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]