“Indian Reservation” (Don Fardon) #20 10/5/1968

Originally titled “The Pale-Faced Indian” and done first in 1959 by Marvin Rainwater (who was one-quarter Cherokee), this was the only US hit for British singer Don Fardon. John D. Loudermilk, the song’s writer, once pranked Casey Kasem, telling him a whopper about a Cherokee chief named Bloody Bear Tooth. Casey used the fake anecdote on his American Top 40 radio show when a remake hit #1 in 1971 for the Raiders (actually a Mark Lindsay solo effort). Loudermilk got a writing credit on Tim McGraw’s “Indian Outlaw” which used a line from this song. Love this version!