"The Blacksmith Blues" is a song which was written for Ella Mae Morse by Jack Holmes.
Bob Bain played a muffled ashtray with a triangle beater to create the hammer and anvil sound effect.
Over a year later, music publisher Del Evans remembered the tune, had Holmes write a new set of lyrics, and had it recorded by Ella Mae Morse.
The dispute was over whether Hill & Range needed to pay royalties to Lynda Music for the rewritten song.
[2][7][8] In a separate dispute in 1959, Mrs Mildred Schultz sued for breach of copyright, claiming that the music was a copy of her 1941 composition "Good Old Army", which she had rewritten in 1949 as "Waitin' For My Baby" but never published or recorded.