Reilly as part of the 2019 biographical film Stan & Ollie. This stage routine was performed by actors Steve Coogan and John C. It was performed by Laurel and Hardy with The Avalon Boys and featured a section sung in deep bass by Chill Wills, lip-synced by Stan Laurel in the film, with the last two lines in falsetto (sung by Rosina Lawrence) after Ollie hit Stan on the head with a mallet. The song was featured in Laurel and Hardy's 1937 film Way Out West. Harrison's version also sold well in the same year. It was recorded by Henry Burr and Albert Campbell on March 4, 1913, and was successful in America.
This version became a UK Singles Chart hit in 1975, some years after both actors had died. It is perhaps best known for being performed by Laurel and Hardy in the 1937 film Way Out West. In it, the singer expresses his love for his girl, June, who is waiting for him under the titular pine tree. It was inspired by John Fox Jr.'s 1908 novel of the same title, but whereas the novel was set in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky, the song refers to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. 'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine' is a popular song published in 1913, with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll.
