"Tragedy" is a song by Gerald H. Nelson and Fred B. Burch.

Thomas Wayne recording

A recording of the song by Thomas Wayne and the DeLons rose to #5 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1959. Wayne's hit version was released on Memphis, Tennessee-based Fernwood Records, which was owned by Ronald "Slim" Wallace from 1957 to 1965. The single was made with a trio of girls recruited from the local high school. Wayne was a one hit wonder who cut around 20 songs including a remake of his hit for the reactivated Sun label which sounds similar to the original. Some of his other songs were hits for others such as "This Time" (Troy Shondell) and "Girl Next Door Went a Walkin'" (Elvis Presley). Despite all of his recordings for three different labels before his death in a car crash on August 15, 1971, he never cut an album and there was no CD issued of his songs until 2021 when Jasmine Records released every Thomas Wayne recording from his debut in 1958 to the end of 1962.

Other recordings