The country music singer Stonewall Jackson did he record red roses blooming back home?

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Stonewall Jackson, RED ROSES BLOOMING BACK HOME, SP COLUMBIA 4-44625 (US), 08/1968 ‘STONEWALL JACKSON’ WAS BORN NOVEMBER 6, 1932, IN TABOR CITY, North Carolina. HE IS AN AMERICAN COUNTRY SINGER AND MUSICIAN WHO ATTAINED HIS POPULARITY DURING COUNTRY'S “ HONKY TONK ERA” IN THE LATE 1950S AND WELL INTO THE MID 1970S. LEGENDARY COUNTRY MUSIC SINGER MICKEY GILLEY, WITH HITS ‘ROOM FULL OF ROSES,’ ‘I OVERLOOKED AN ORCHID,’ ‘TRUE LOVE WAYS,’ ‘DON'T THE GIRLS ALL GET PRETTIER AT CLOSING TIME,’ AND THE OWNER OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST AND BEST (FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE) COUNTRY MUSIC DANCE HALL CLUBS (AT THAT TIME) ‘MICKEY GILLEY’S, IN PASADENA, TEXAS, IS REPORTED TO BE A FAN OF JACKSON’S. STONEWALL JACKSON WAS NAMED AFTER ONE OF HIS ANCESTORS, THE WELL-KNOWN “CONFEDERATE GENERAL, THOMAS ‘STONEWALL’ JACKSON.” HIS NAME, STONEWALL JACKSON, IS NOT A STAGE NAME OR AN ALIAS - IT IS HIS ACTUAL GIVEN NAME. ONE OF HIS MOST POPULAR SONGS WAS "WATERLOO," RELEASED IN 1959. THIS SONG IS A HAUNTING AND CATCHY TUNE, WHICH STATES, "EVERYBODY HAS TO MEET HIS WATERLOO," DENOTATING EACH OF US WILL HAVE TO FACE OUR OWN INEVITABLE FATE. "WATERLOO," REFERS TO ADAMIRAL Napoleon Bonaparte’S DEMISE. "WATERLOO" BROKE INTO THE “TOP 40’S HIT LIST” IN LATE 1958 REACHING #1 AND REMAINING AT THAT SPOT FOR 6 WEEKS. CONSEQUENCELY, "WATERLOO" WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SONGS THAT CROSSED COUNTRY TO POP GENRES BY THE SAME ARTIST. IT MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE #4 SPOT ON “THE BILLBOARD’S HOT 100 CHARTS.” . "WATERLOO" ALSO MADE ITS WAY ACROSS THE SEA WHERE IT REACHED #24 IN THE UK SINGLES CHART IN JULY 1959 IN JANUARY 2007, STONEWALL JACKSON FILED A LEGAL CLAIM AGAINST ‘THE GRAND OLE OPRY’S GENERAL MANAGER, ‘PETE FISHER,’ AND ‘THE GRAND OLE OPRY’S OWNER, ‘GAYLORD ENTERTAINMENT COMPAY’ FOR $20 MILLION DOLLARS. JACKSON CLAIMS HIS APPEARANCES ON THE SHOW DECLINED AFTER GRAND OLE OPRY’S GENERAL MANAGER PETE FISHER WAS HIRED IN 1998. STONEWALL JACKSON STATED THAT HE APPROACHED PETE FISHER ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND WAS TOLD, "I DON'T WANT ANY GRAY HAIRS ON THAT STAGE OR IN THE AUDIENCE, AND BEFORE I'M DONE THERE WON'T BE ANY," AND, "YOU'RE TOO OLD AND TOO COUNTRY." IT ALSO STATED TO JACKSON THAT HE WAS "TOO OLD AND TOO COUNTRY." THE 75-YEAR-OLD SINGER FILED THE LAWSUIT SEEKING $10 MILLION IN COMPENSATORY DAMAGES AND $10 MILLION IN PUNITIVE DAMAGE. JACKSON SAID HE HAD LOST HIS HEALTH INSURANCE THROUGH ‘THE GRAND OLE OPRY’ BECAUSE HE COULD NO LONGER MEET THE REQUIREMENTS WHEN GENERAL MANAGER PETE FISHER REDUCED HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCES. THE AGE DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT STONEWALL JACKSON FILED AGAINST THE GRAND OLE OPRY WAS SETTLED ON FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 2008, ALTHOUGH TERMS OF THE SETTLEMENT HAVE NOT BEEN DISCLOSED. STONEWALL JACKSON HAS RETURNED TO PERFORMING ON THE SHOW IN RECENT MONTHS.