"The Gold Rush Is Over" is a song written by

Cindy Walker Cindy Walker (July 20, 1918 – March 23, 2006) was an American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer. She wrote many popular and enduring songs recorded by many artists. She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwr ...

, sung by

Hank Snow Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American country music artist. Most popular in the 1950s, he had a career that spanned more than 50 years, he recorded 140 albums and charted more than 85 singles on t ...

, and released on the

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label (catalog no. 20-4522). In April 1952, it peaked at No. 2 on ''

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''s country and western juke box chart (No. 4 best seller and jockey). It spent 18 weeks on the charts and was ranked No. 10 on ''Billboard''s 1952 year-end country and western juke box chart and No. 13 on the year-end best seller chart.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gold Rush is Over, The Hank Snow songs 1952 songs Songs written by Cindy Walker

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