Other recordings included Dudley's duet with Tom T. Hall, "Day Drinking," and his own Top 10 hit, "Fireball Rolled A Seven," supposedly based on the career and death of Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts.
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Born in Spencer, Wisconsin, Dudley had a short career as a semi-professional baseball player.
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Additionally, "Six Tons of Toys" is a cover of a Dave Dudley song, which itself is a rewrite of Dudley's signature song "Six Days on the Road".
Other performers who have recorded the song include Dave Dudley, Leroy Van Dyke, and George and Gwen McCrae.
Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.