In a 1967 interview, Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio recounts first hearing the song from another performer and then being criticized and sued for taking credit for the song.
Warner had learned the song from Proffitt, who learned it from his aunt, Nancy Prather, whose parents had known both Laura Foster and Tom Dula. The Kingston Trio took their version from Frank Warner's singing. Grayson and Henry Whitter made in 1929, approximately 10 years before Proffitt cut his own recording. There are several earlier known recordings, notably one that G. In the documentary Appalachian Journey (1991), folklorist Alan Lomax describes Frank Proffitt as the "original source" for the song, which was misleading in that he did not write it. A local poet named Thomas Land wrote a song about the tragedy, titled "Tom Dooley", shortly after Dula was hanged. "Tom Dooley" fits within the wider genre of Appalachian "sweetheart murder ballads". Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
The song was selected as one of the American Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and also was top 10 on the Billboard R&B chart, and appeared in the Cashbox Country Music Top 20. One of the more famous murder ballads, a popular hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio, which reached No. " Tom Dooley" is a traditional North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina by Tom Dula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley").
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