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Jim Stafford – Wildwood Weed
A hit for Jim Stafford in 1974, “Wildwood Weed” was a song that takes a bit of The Carter Family’s “Wildwood Flower” for inspiration.
The story, however, is about a couple of farmers who found a wild flower growing among the crops. It smelled good so the tried chewing them, only to find they were hallucinogenic and started enjoying the effect of the plant. They decided to grow more of it until the Fed found out and chopped it all down and confiscated the remains. Luckily, the farmers had held back some seeds that the Fed did not make off with, and began growing the weed again, in secret.
The song peaked at #7 on the U.S. Hot 100, despite some Top 40 AM stations banning it due to it’s reference to pot.
Here it again tomorrow morning in the first hour of Casey Kasem’s AT40 – The 70s!
