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The Springfields included "Cotton Fields" on a 1962 EP release; this version is featured on the CD On an Island of Dreams: The Best of the Springfields. "Cotton Fields" was also recorded by Unit 4+2 for their Concrete and Clay album (1965). A rendering in French, "L'enfant do", was recorded in 1962 by Hugues Aufray and Petula Clark.
In the 1950s, there are very few examples of work songs linked to cotton picking. [16] Corn, however, was a very common subject of work songs on a typical plantation. Because the crop was the main component of most Africans' diet, [citation needed] they would often sing about it regardless of whether it was being harvested. Often, communities ...
Cotton Fields: 1964 – – Huddie Ledbetter : The Seekers: The Seekers (a.k.a. Roving With The Seekers) W&G Records: Keith Grant: 2:52 Danny Boy: 1964 – – Traditional melody Frederic Weatherly (lyrics) The Seekers: The Seekers (a.k.a. Roving With The Seekers) W&G Records: Keith Grant: 3:03 Days of My Life: 1968 – – Tony Romeo: Dese ...
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Creedence also released its own version of "Cotton Fields" on this album, which reached the No. 1 position in Mexico. The album was planned to be formed around a concept introduced in "Down on the Corner", with Creedence taking on the identity of an old-time jug band called "Willy and The Poor Boys". However, this was dropped rather quickly ...
Field hollers, cries and hollers of the slaves and later sharecroppers working in cotton fields, prison chain gangs, railway gangs (Gandy dancers) or turpentine camps are seen as the precursor to the call and response of African American spirituals and gospel music, to jug bands, minstrel shows, stride piano, and ultimately to the blues, to ...
We sing "Auld Lang Syne" at the end of every single year, but as Mariah Carey asks in her indelible version, "Does anybody really know the words?"After all, what is the meaning of "Auld Lang Syne
As far as I can tell the song has nothing to do with slavery; but the Czech band 'cs:Greenhorns' has performed a version with slavery-related lyrics (about the suffering of slaves working the cotton fields), perhaps inspired by English "cotton" sounding similar to Czech "katům" (meaning "to executioners" / "to torturers").