The Golden Rocket

"The Golden Rocket"
"The Golden Rocket"
Single by Hank Snow
B-side	"Paving the Highway with Tears"
Released	1950
Recorded	1950
Genre	Country
Length	2:47
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter	Clarence E. Snow
Hank Snow singles chronology

"The Golden Rocket" is a 1950 single by Hank Snow. "The Golden Rocket" was his follow-up release to "I'm Movin' On", and spent two weeks on the Country & Western Best Seller list and a total of twenty-three weeks on the chart.^[1]

The song likely references the Golden Rocket, a proposed passenger train of the Rock Island Railroad.

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 322.

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[1] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 322.

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v t e Hank Snow
Studio albums	Railroad Man (1963) Songs of Tragedy (1964) C. B. Atkins & C. E. Snow by Special Request (1969) Hello Love (1974)
Compilation albums	Hank Snow's Souvenirs (1961) More Hank Snow Souvenirs (1964) The Hits Of Hank Snow (1978)
Collaboration albums	Reminiscing (1964)
Notable singles	"I'm Moving On" "The Golden Rocket" "The Rhumba Boogie" "Down the Trail of Achin' Hearts" "Bluebird Island" "The Gold Rush Is Over" "Lady's Man" "I Went to Your Wedding" "(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" "I Don't Hurt Anymore" "Let Me Go, Lover!" "Yellow Roses" "I've Been Everywhere" "Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)" "Hula Love" "The Name of the Game Was Love" "(The Seashores) Of Old Mexico" "Hello Love"
Related articles	Discography