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Joel Whitburn identifies early successful recordings by Len Spencer (1892), Vess Ossman (1900), Haydn Quartet (1904), Louise Homer (1905), Alma Gluck (1915), Taylor Trio (1916) and by Oscar Seagle and Columbia Stellar Quartet (1919). [18] The song enjoyed a revival in the 1930s with versions by Jimmie Lunceford [19] and by Bunny Berigan. [20]
The song was the most frequently recorded song of the acoustic recording era, starting with its first known recording by Richard Jose in 1903. [4]Later 20th-century recordings of the song include those of John McCormack, Bing Crosby (recorded November 8, 1947), [5] Jerry Lee Lewis (1956 and 1973), Georg Ots (in Estonian and Finnish, 1958), Tapio Rautavaara (in Finnish, 1967) and Jo Stafford ...
The song's title is a reference to the unrelated song "Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" by Bruce Cockburn, from his 1978 album, Further Adventures Of. [5] [6] Primitive Radio Gods frontman Chris O'Connor stated that he was struggling to name his new song, so he picked up Further Adventures Of and adapted the title "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand ...
Tommy Makem "The Butcher Boy" on Songs of Tommy Makem 1961. Jean Ritchie "Go Dig My Grave" on Precious Memories 1962. Vern Smeiser "The Butcher's Boy" 1963 on Art of Field Recording Volume 2. Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson "Go Dig My Grave" on Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson Live at Folk City 1963. The Goldebriars "The Railroad Boy" 1964 on The ...
Though most of the LP's tracks had appeared on parts 3 and 4 of the Back from the Grave CD-specific sub-series (released in 1994 and 1995), in 2015, it was released on CD with the re-mastered material and closely matches the song content (and album cover artwork) of the original LP (containing all but two of the cuts on the original LP) as part ...
Massa's in De Cold Ground (1852) is a song by Stephen Foster. The song was included in the book 55 Songs and Choruses for Community Singing, published in 1917. According to the book, it is one of the most graceful of Stephen C. Foster's melodies. It also has a simple harmonic structure, characteristic of Foster's compositions. The lyrics voice ...
The brilliance of those songs as first-act twins is that “The Wizard and I” is a classic “I want” song, whereas “Gravity” has to go above and beyond it as — literally — an I don ...
A 1928 Lutheran publication used O'Connell's exact words [14] when it described the song as a "sob-producer" that was a "flagrant outrage to faith and the ritual." [ 15 ] In 1953, Donald H. V. Hallock . the Episcopal Bishop of Milwaukee , banned the use of this and other "popular" songs from use at Episcopal services as they did not conform to ...