dinsdag 24 oktober 2017

Little Brown Jug (1869) / Dude and the Farmer ( 1903) / My Ding-a-Ling (1952) / Toy Bell (1954) / My Tambourine (1968)


"Little Brown Jug" is a song written by Joseph Winner, originally published in Philadelphia in 1869 and credited to "Eastburn" (Winner's middle name).

 


In 1868 a song with the same title, written by George Cooper and W.F. Wellman Jr., was published by C.H. Ditson in New York. As you can see on the link below, this was another song.



In 1869 "Little Brown Jug" was published by S.T. Gordon in New York, claiming the song was written by Betta.


But nowadays most authorities accept Winner as the composer.


It was originally a drinking song. It remained well known as a folk song into the early 20th century.




The first version seems to be recorded by:

(o) Steve Porter (1900) (as "Little Brown Jug")
Nr 3 Hit US Charts
Released on Columbia Cylinder # 4617


This version is on my wishlist. 



(c) Arthur Collins and Byron G Harlan (1903)  (as "The Dude and the Farmer")
Recorded March 24, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Released on Victor Monarch 2116


 

Listen here (at around 2 min and 9 sec on the soundfile below):




(c) Laura C. Herstein (1905) (as "Little Brown Jug")
Recorded September 4, 1905
Released on a Concert Brown Wax Cylinder (this was a home recording)





In 1916 the Victory Mixed Chorus sang "Little Brown Jug" as part of a medley.

(c) Victory Mixed Chorus (1916)  (part of the "Songs of the Past No. 20" medley)
Recorded June 28, 1916 in Camden, New Jersey
Released on Victor 35585


 



Like many songs which make reference to alcoholic beverages, it enjoyed new popularity during the Prohibition era.

(c) Henry Whitter (1924) (as "Little Brown Jug")
Recorded in New York on February 26, 1924
Released on OKEH 40063


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(c) George Reneau (1924) (as "Little Brown Jug")
Recorded in April 18, 1924 in New York.
George Reneau: harmonica/guitar and Gene Austin: vocals/calls
Released on Vocalion 14812



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(c) Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen (1927) (as "Little Brown Jug")
Recorded in Atlanta, GA on April 2, 1927
Released on Columbia 15232



Unlike what it says in the next YT, this version is by Riley Puckety and Clayton McMichen.




In 1939, bandleader Glenn Miller recorded and broadcast his swing instrumental arrangement of the tune with great success, and the number became one of the best known orchestrations of the American Big Band era. His version did not have the lyrics.

(c) Glenn Miller and his Orchestra (1939) (as "Little Brown Jug")  
Nr 10 Hit USA Charts
Recorded April 10, 1939
Released on Bluebird B-10286

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In the 1948 Famous Studios Screen Song animated short titled "Little Brown Jug", a "bouncing ball" cartoon, it is sung with the music credited to Winston Sharples and entirely new lyrics by Buddy Kaye.
"Little Brown Jug" starts around 4 minutes in the next YT





(c) Richie Blackmore (1965) (as "Little Brown Jug")
Released on Oriole CB 314






(c) Jive Bunny (1989)  (part of the "Swing The Mood" medley
Nr 1 Hit UK)


Listen here (at 4 min and 50 sec in the YT below)







The same melody was used for the song "My Ding-a-Ling" written by Dave Bartholomew in 1952, which became a Number 1 hit in 1972 for Chuck Berry.


(c) Dave Bartholomew (1952)  (as "My Ding-A-Ling")
Recorded January 1952


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A few months later when Bartholomew moved to Imperial Records, he re-recorded the song under the new title, "Little Girl Sing Ting-a-Ling".

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In the summer of 1954 Dave Bartholomew produced a version by The Spiders, which was titled "The Real Thing", which, lyrically, was clearly derived from "My Ding-A-Ling"

(c) The Spiders (1954) (as "The Real Thing")


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Only one month later, also in 1954 Dave Bartholomew produced a version by The Bees, which was titled "Toy Bell".
The Bees' "Toy Bell" was more or less the version, which Chuck Berry used for his 1972 live-version, that was a US No 1 Hit.

(c)  The Bees (1954) (as "Toy Bell")


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Before the famous 1972 live-version, Chuck Berry recorded a studio-version called "My Tambourine" in 1968.

(c) Chuck Berry (1968)  (as "My Tambourine")




But the version which topped the charts was recorded live during the Lanchester Arts Festival at the Locarno ballroom in Coventry, England, on 3 February 1972.



The Youtube below is from BBC In Concert, first broadcast on July 22, 1972.





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dinsdag 17 oktober 2017

The Braes of Balquhither (1814) / Will You Go Lassie Go (1952) / Wild Mountain Thyme (1957)


"Wild Mountain Thyme" (also known as "Purple Heather" and "Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?") is a Scottish folk song that was collected by Francis McPeake 1st, who wrote the song himself for his wife. The McPeake family claim recognition for the writing of the song. Francis McPeake is a member of a well known musical family in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The lyrics and melody are a variant of the song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill (1774–1810), a contemporary of Robert Burns. Tannahill's original song is about the hills (braes) around Balquhidder near Lochearnhead.
Like Burns, Tannahill collected and adapted traditional songs, and "The Braes of Balquhither" may have been based on the traditional song "The Braes o' Bowhether" (SEE NOTE on the bottom of this post)




(c) Frank McPeake and Son (1952) (as "Will You Go, Lassie, Go")
Recorded July 7, 1952 at the O'Boyle Family home in Belfast.


Charles O'Boyle had invited a number of performers to meet Peter Kennedy for his first evening of music collecting in Belfast.
In particular Peter was struck by the song, "Will You Go, Lassie Go?", the tune of which was composed by Francie I, recorded it in a cupboard under the stairs, and, when he returned to London, persuaded George Martin and the Educational Dept. of The Gramophone Company to issue this track on a 10" LP called "Folk Song Today" (His Master's Voice DLP 1143)


On the back-sleeve we can read: "Their song is a version of "The Braes of Balquidder"




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As I said above "Wild Mountain Thyme" is a reworded arrangement of "The Braes of Balquhither",
which also includes the lines "Let us go, lassie, go" and "And the wild mountain thyme".

"The Braes of Balquhither" was first published at Falkirk in 1814, together with "Jamie frae Dundee", "Blyth was she", "M’Pherson’s farewel", and "Highland Rover" - held in the British Library at shelfmark 11621.b.10.(35.)

The song was also published in 1815 in the 3rd edition of "Poems and Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" by Robert Tannahill.
"The Braes Of Balquhither" is on page 154, with "The Three Carls o' Buchanan" mentioned as accompanying air (which, some suggest. is the same melody that Francis McPeake used for "Wild Mountain Thyme")



A five-verse voice and piano arrangement was published by J.A. and W. Geib in New York circa 1818-1821. as we see below this is another melody, than the one used for "Wild Mountain Thyme"





Then it received a new arrangement, attributed to John Davies, in 1821, also not the tune later used for "Wild Mountain Thyme".



The tune was most certainly not composed by McPeake, as it is and was an ancient Scots air even in Robert Tannahill's time!
Furthermore, in a BBC Radio interview in 1957, Francie McPeake Snr, admitted he learned the song from an Uncle, and made no claims to have written or composed it!

Robert Tannahill clearly wrote and published the lyrics, and they were included twice in Robert Archibald Smith's "Scotish Minstrel" (1821).

Vol I, p. 49 (appears in index as "Will ye go, lassie, go" to the air of "Braes o'Balquither".



and Vol. IV, p. 89 (has another tune marked "2nd set", appears in index as "Let us go, lassie, go" set to the air of "The Three Carls o' Buchanan".





"Will ye go, lassie, go" to the air of "Braes o'Balquither" from Vol I of the Scotish Minstrel, was most likely the source for Francis McPeake to write his adaption of "Wild Mountain Thyme".
But even before that, in 1816, the song was published as "Bochuiddar" or "Balquhidder" (song # 77 on page 38) in Captain S. Fraser's "Collection of Melodies of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland".




This is confirmed on page 112/113 in George Farguhar Graham's "The Songs of Scotland Adapted to Their Appropriate Melodies" (1850).
It says: "In Captain S. Fraser's Collection of Melodies of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1816, we find, No. 77, Bochuiddar - Balquidder - which is the air applied to Tannahill's song, with some slight differences, as found in vol. I, p. 49 of R.A. Smith's "Scottish Minstrel"

 


SEE ALSO page 112/113 on the next link:


Some sheets on Bodleian (as Roud # 541):  http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/roud/541



The first recorded version of "The Braes o' Balqu(h)idder" seems to be

(o) P.S. Richardson (1911) (as "The Braes o' Balquidder")
Recorded January 1911 in London
Released on Columbia Rena 1692 and on Regal G-6573




Here's the first recorded version of "The Braes o' Balquhidder", I could find: 

(c) Alma Gluck.(1914) (as "The Braes o' Balquhidder")
Recorded: March 6, 1914 in Camden, New Jersey
Released on Victor 64416



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In the 1950's Elizabeth Cronin sang 2 versions (recorded by Alan Lomax in 1951 and Seamus Ennis in 1952).
In "The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin", the notes say the song was set to music by Robert Archibald Smith himself, which may or may not be quite accurate since it is known that Tannahill set the tunes himself to many of his other songs.



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(c) John MacDonald (1974)  (as "The Braes O' Balquhidder").

John MacDonald sang The Braes o' Balquhidder on his 1975 Topic album "The Singing Molecatcher of Morayshire".
Hamish Henderson commented in the album's liner notes: A song by the Paisley weaver-poet Robert Tannahill (1774-1810), to an old air "The Three Carles o' Buchanan". This exquisite song became very popular in the 19th century throughout Scotland and Ireland. It was in the repertoire of the celebrated ballad-singer Mrs Elizabeth Cronin of Macroom, Co. Cork, and the version recorded by the McPeake family of Belfast—now known throughout the modern folk revival as "The Wild Mountain Thyme"—continues to enjoy widespread popularity. It belongs to a well-known class of courtship songs in which the lover appeals to his girl to leave the city and enjoy the pleasures of country life. These songs gained added pathos in the period of the Industrial Revolution, when so many of the Lowland towns turned into smokey hell-holes.



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(c) Tannahill Weavers (1994)  (as "The Braes o' Balquhidder")


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(c) Sandy Paton (1959) (as "Wild Mountain Thyme")



Quoting Sandy Paton on the Mudat Cafe: "I recorded it for Elektra Records in 1959 (and taught it to Judy Collins in that year when she and I worked together at the Exodus in Denver). I had learned it from a field recording made of the McPeakes which I found in the BBC Recorded Programmes Library which was then housed at the Cecil Sharp House in London".


(c) Judy Collins (1961)  (as "Wild Mountain Thyme")



Here's Judy singing an accapella version on Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" show in 1966.




(c) Bob Dylan (1961)  (as "Wild Mountain Thyme")
Recorded May 1961 in Minnesota


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Bob also performed the song in 1969 on the Isle of Wight Festival in the UK
And on June 22, 1988 in Cincinnati, Ohio

And here's Bob with Joan Baez live in 1975.




10 years after father and son McPeake recorded the first version of "Will You Go, Lassie, Go", they recorded another version, this time accompanied by grandson Francis McPeake III.

(c) McPeake Family (1963) (as "Will Ye Go Lassie Go?")
Recorded winter 1962 in London
Released on ep "Wild Mountain Thyme" on Topic-label




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(c) Simon Sisters (1965) (as "Will You Go Laddie Go")



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(c) Joan Baez (1965)  (as "Wild Mountain Thyme")



Here Joan performs the song live in Edinburgh in 1965.




(c) Marianne Faithfull (1965) (as "Wild Mountasin Thyme")
Released in 1965 on het album "Go Away From My World" (USA)


Also released in 1966 on her album "North Country Maid" (UK)





(c) The Byrds (1966) (as "Wild Mountain Thyme")





(c) Fotheringay (1970) (as "Wild Mountain Thyme")
Released in 2008 on the CD "Fotheringay 2".





(c) Van Morrison (1973)  (as "Purple Heather")
Released on the album "Hard Nose The Highway"





(c) Rod Stewart (1995)  (as "Purple Heather")
Released on the album "A Spanner In The Works".



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(c) Mark Knopfler (2002) (as "Wild Mountain Thyme")
Released in 2002 on the soundtrack of "A Shot At Glory")

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(c) James Taylor (2015) (as "Wild Mountain Thyme")





(c) Ed Sheeran (2017) (as "Wild Mountain Thyme")

Sheeran paying tribute to his Irish roots. (and maybe a bit Scottish too !)




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NOTE: Robert Tannahill's "The Braes o'Balquhither" might have been inspired by John Hamilton's "The Braes O'Bowhether" (1796)





dinsdag 10 oktober 2017

Girl in the Blue Velvet Band (1934) / Black Velvet Band (1950)


"The Black Velvet Band" (Roud number 2146) is a traditional folk song collected from singers in Australia, England, Canada, Ireland and the United States describing how a young man is tricked and then sentenced to transportation to Van Diemen's Land (Australia).

It was published as a broadside ballad by Swindells of Manchester some time between 1796 and 1853
An additional note says: Tune: "Tars Of The Blanch"

In this version the young man visited the little town of Barking and the girl with the black velvet band deceived him on Ratcliffe Highway, after which a judge sentenced him to a free passage to Van Diemen's Land.
Ratcliffe Highway is the old name for a road in the East End of London, now called The Highway, then one of three main roads leaving London. It was in a dangerous and run-down area of seedy businesses, dark alleys and dilapidated tenements.



SEE ALSO:  Ballads Online


An American song called "The Girl In The Blue Velvet Band", credited to Cliff Carlisle, has a similar plot and is loosely based on "Black Velvet Band". Here the young man is tricked by a beautiful girl with a Blue Velvet Band and then sent to San Quentin prison.
It was recorded by Bill Monroe, Doc Watson and Mac Wiseman among others, but Carlisle himself recorded it first in 1934.

(c) Cliff Carlisle (1934) (as "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band")
Cliff Carlisle: Vocals, yodeling and steel guitar
Recorded August 28, 1934 in New York
Released on Romeo 5-12-61 and on Perfect 5-12-61


On the label we see that William Ronald "Bill" Calaway, who was an A&R man for Bill Carlisle, gets a writing credit.


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(c) Tex Fletcher & Joe Rogers (1937)  (as "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band")
Recorded June 2, 1937
Released on Decca 5403






Hank Snow adapted the lyrics a bit and the song became a complete tearjerker.


(c) Hank Snow (1937) (as "The Blue Velvet Band")
Recorded November 8, 1937
Released on Bluebird B-4635
 

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(c) Bill Carlisle (1947) (as "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band")
Recorded October 1946 in Cincinnati OH
Released on King # 638


Here the sole writing credit goes to Cliff Carlisle (Bill's brother)


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(c) Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys  (1949) (as "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band")
Recorded October 22, 1949 in Nashville TN
Released on the B-side of  Columbia # 20648







(c) Mac Wiseman (1959) (as "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band")


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Starting in the 1940's the first recordings of "The Black Velvet Band", which was most likely the ORIGINAL source for "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band", were released.


In 1942, Helen Hartness Flanders recorded Fred Brackett performing the song in Stacyville, Maine, USA


SEE song #293 on the next link: Quinn_Flanders Ballad Index

(c) Fred Brackett (1942) (as "Black Velvet Band")
Recorded May 10, 1942 in Stacyville, Maine, USA

Listen here (at 15 min and 55 seconds in the MP3 file below:





In 1952 Peter Kennedy and Sean O'Boyle recorded Paddy Doran performing the song in Belfast.

(c) Paddy Doran (1952) (as "The Black Velvet Band")
Recorded July 24, 1952 in Belfast


It was released on a Folktrax cassette # FTX 168





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On July 28, 1953, Peter Kennedy recorded Mick McAlinden performing the song in the Cloughmore Hotel in Rostrevor.




(c) Harry Cox (1955)  (as "The Black Velvet Band")
Recorded in 1955 by Ewan MacColl


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(c) Ewan MacColl (1957)  (as "Black Velvet Band")
Ewan MacColl: vocals,  with Peggy Seeger: backingvocals and guitar
Released on the album "Bad Lads and Hard Cases" (Riverside label RLP 12-632



Also released on the Australian Wattle-label




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(c) The Bushwhackers (1957)  (as "Black Velvet Band")
Released on Wattle A11




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(c) The Wolfe Tones (1966)  (as "The Black Ribbon Band")






(c) John Kelly (1967)  (as "Black Velvet Band")  
Nr 1 Hit in the Irish Charts)






(c) Dubliners (1967) (as "Black Velvet Band")  
Nr 15 Hit in the UK Charts


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(c) The Irish Rovers (1968) (as "Black Velvet Band")
Recorded July 31, 1967 in LA
Released on the B-side of their Top 10 US hit "The Unicorn"




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(c) RUM (1972) (as "De Vuurrooien Band")






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woensdag 4 oktober 2017

Kelly's Love (1911) / Loveless Love (1921) / Careless Love (1923) / I Have No Loving Mother Now (1927) / Blues Oh Blues (1928)

"Loveless Love" / "Careless Love" is a traditional song of obscure origins.
It was one of the best known pieces in the repertory of the Buddy Bolden band in New Orleans, Louisiana at the very start of the 20th century, and has remained a jazz standard and blues standard. Hundreds of recordings have been made in folk, blues, jazz, country, and pop styles

Mentioned in 1911 in a transcription by Howard Odum in The Journal of American Folk-Lore, as "Kelly's Love", probably named after Chris Kelly, New Orleans trumpet player who like Buddy Bolden never recorded.

THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE
Vol. XXIV. —JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1911— No. XCIII
FOLK-SONG AND FOLK-POETRY AS FOUND IN THE SECULAR SONGS OF THE SOUTHERN NEGROES BY HOWARD W. ODUM

In volume 24 - July/September 1911 - no 93 of the Journal of American Folk-Lore transcription it is song # 42 on page 286.

42. kelly's love
In "Kelly's Love" the note of disappointed love is sounded:

| : Love, Kelly's love, : | (three times)
You broke de heart o' many a girl,
You never break dis heart o' mine.
| : When I wo' my aprons low, : | (three times)
Couldn't keep you from my do'.
| : Now I weahs my aprons high, : | (three times)
Sca'cely ever see you passin' by.
| : Now I weahs my aprons to my chin, : | (three times)
You pass my do', but can't come in.
| : See what Kelly's love have done. : | (three times)
See what Kelly's love have done.
: If I had listened to what my mamma said, : | (three times)
I would a been at home in mamma's bed.


And on page 256 Odum wrote: Likewise there is abundant material for comparing with well-known folk-songs or ballads of other origins. One may note, for instance, the striking similarity between the mountain-song — "She broke the heart of many poor fellows, But she won't break this of mine" — and the negro song " Kelly's Love," the chorus of which is, "You broke de heart o' many a girl, But you never will break dis heart o' mine."



Mentioned in 1915 in a transcription by E.C. Perrow in The Journal of American Folk-Lore, as "Careless Love", with a notation "From Mississippi; country whites; MS of R. J. Slay; 1909."
In volume 28 - April/June 1915 - no 108 of the Journal of American Folk-Lore transcription it is song # 3 on page 147.



As "Kelly's" and "Careless" have similar sounds, one is probably a corruption of the other; but which came first is not known.


In the book "Creating Jazz Counterpoint: New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues", there are also a few notes about the history of "Careless Love"




WC Handy was the first to publish this song in 1921 as "Loveless Love" - a Blues Ballad".
In 1926 Handy published it again as "Careless Love".









The first recorded version:

(o) Noble Sissle and his Sizzling Syncopators (1921)  (as "Loveless Love")
Recorded January-February 1921 in New York
Released on Pathe 20493 and Actuelle 020493



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(c) James P. Johnson (1921) (as "Loveless Love (a 'Blues' Ballad)")
Not a record but a piano-roll on QRS 1340
Recorded May 1921 in Newark, New Jersey.



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(c) Katherine Handy (1922)  (as "Loveless Love")
Acc by her father's Memphis Blues Band.
Recorded January 1922 in New York
Released on Paramount 12011


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(c) Alberta Hunter 1923 (as "Loveless Love")
Acc by Henderson's Dance Orchestra
Recorded February 1923 in New York
Released on Paramount 12019




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(c) Bessie Smith (1925)  (as "Careless Love Blues")
Bessie’s version used new lyrics by Martha Koenig and Spencer Williams and featured Louis Armstrong on cornet.
Recorded May 26, 1925 in New York City
Released on Columbia 14083-D
 

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(c) Lester McFarland and Robert L. Gardner (1926) (as "Careless Love")
Recorded October 16, 1926 in New York
Released onVocalion 5125


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(c) Dodds and Parham (1927)  (as "Loveless Love")
Johnny Dodds (clarinet) and Tiny Parham (piano)
Recorded April 1927 in Chicago
Released on the B-side of Paramount 12483 ("19th Street Blues" / "Loveless Love")



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(c) Lulu Jackson (1928)  (as "Careless Love Blues")
Recorded June 21, 1928
Released on Vocalion 1193


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(c) Lonnie Johnson (1928) (as "Careless Love")
Recorded November 16, 1928
Released on Okeh 8635
 

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(c) Eva Parker (1928)  (as "Careless Love")
Recorded November 27, 1928 in Chicago.
Released on Victor V-38020.
 

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(c) (Asa) Martin and (James) Roberts (1934) (as "Careless Love")
Recorded August 29, 1934 in New York
Released on Perfect 5-11-63





(c) Leadbelly (1935)  (as "Careless Love")
Recorded January 20, 1935 in Wilton, Connecticut.
Matrix 52-A


Released in 1991 on the next Rounder-album


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(c) Cleoma Falcon (1936) (as "L’Amour Indifferent")
Cleoma Breaux Falcon: Vocals Guitar, Moise Morgan: Fiddle, Joe Falcon: Fiddle.
Recorded on March 12, 1936 in New Orleans.
Released on Decca 17024



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(c) Georgia White (1937)  (as "Careless Love")
Recorded November 9, 1937 in Chicago
Released on Decca 7419



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Some 20 months earlier Georgia White had recorded "Tell Me Baby", which had the same melody as "Careless Love"

(c) Georgia White (1936) (as "Tell Me Baby")
Recorded January 16, 1936
Released on Decca 7152

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(c) Delmore Brothers (1938)  (as "Careless Love (Bring My Baby Back)")
Recorded January 26, 1938 in Charlotte, NC
Released on Bluebird B-7436
 


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And here's the "composer", WC Handy, himself.

(c) W.C. Handy & Orchestra (1940) (as "Loveless Love")
Recorded on December 26, 1939 in New York City
 






(c) Josh White (1940) (as "Careless Love")
Recorded March 7, 1940 in New York
Released on the 78 RPM album "Harlem Blues" on the Musicraft label (album #N3)


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(c) Billie Holiday (1941)  (as "Loveless Love")
Recorded October 15, 1940 in New York
Released on Okeh 6064
 



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(c) Fats Domino (1950) (as "Careless Love")
Antoine Domino(v/p), Dave Bartholomew(tp), Joe Harris)as), Clarence Hall(ts), Herbert Hardesty(ts), Alvin "Red" Tyler(bs), Ernest McLean(g), Frank Fields(b), Earl Palmer(d)
Recorded September 1950 in New Orleans
Released September 1951 on Imperial 5145


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(c) Anita Carter (1950)  (as "Careless Love")
Anita Carter (vcl), Chet Atkins [gt], Harold Bradley [gt], W. Robinson [steel], Ernie Newton [bass], John Gordy [piano]
Recorded 22 October 1950 (unissued at the time)
Released in 2004

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(c) Pete Seeger (1958)  (as "Careless Love")


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(c) Nat King Cole (1958)  (as "Careless Love")



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(c) Dave Van Ronk (1959) (as "Careless Love")


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(c) Joan Baez and Bill Wood (1959)  (as "Careless Love")
Recorded May 1959
Released on Veritas XTV 62202-3



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(c) Connie Francis (1961) (as "Careless Love")


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(c) Ray Charles (1962)  (as "Careless Love")



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(c) Nina Simone (1967) (as "Love O' Love")
Recorded June 29, 1967 at RCA studios in New York City


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(c) Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash (1969) (as "Careless Love")
Recorded on February 18, 1969 in Nashville


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(c) Quincy Jones Orchestra (1986)  (as "Careless Love")
Vocals: Tata Vega
From the movie "The Color Purple"


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(c) Madeleine Peyroux (2004)  (as "Careless Love")


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(c) Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton (2011) (as "Careless Love")
Recorded April 2011 live from Jazz at the Lincoln Center


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(c) Hugh Laurie (2013) (as "Careless Love")


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Many coverversions here:





The following songs also took the melody from "Loveless Love"/ "Careless Love".


(c) Kelly Harrell and Henry Norton (as "I Have No Loving Mother Now")
Recorded August 12, 1927 in Charlotte, NC
Released on Victor 20935
 


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(c) Ma Rainey And Her Georgia Band (1928)  (as "Blues Oh Blues")
Shirley Clay (tp) Kid Ory (tb) unknown (tu) Claude "Hop" Hopkins (p) unknown (bj) Ma Rainey (vo) unknown male talking
Recorded in Chicago, IL, circa August, 1927
Paramount 12566

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Joshua White (1933) and Blind Willie McTell (1935) both recorded versions of "Lay Some Flowers on My Grave", which is melodically identical to "Careless Love". The lyrics are similar to "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"

(c) Joshua White (1933)  (as "Lay Some Flowers on My Grave")
Recorded November 13, 1933 in New York City
Released on Banner 32918, Conqueror 8271, Melotone m 12861, Oriole 8289,  Romeo 5289
and Perfect 0264


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(c) Blind Willie McTell (1935)  (as "Lay Some Flowers On My Grave")
Recorded April 25, 1935
Released on Decca 7810


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(c) Robert Johnson (1936)  (as "Last Fair Deal Gone Down")
Recorded Novemer 27, 1936 in San Antonio, TX
Released on Vocalion 03445
Also issued on Perfect 7-04-60 (900 copies) and Oriole 7-04-60 (60 copies) in April 1937.



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Papa Charlie Jackson uses the melody for his guitar-solo on "Mumsy Mumsy Blues"
Recorded February 1926 in Chicago
Released on Paramount 12366


Listen here (at 1 min and 25 sec YT below)






NOTE: musically speaking "Loveless Love" / "Careless Love" has also a little resemblance to "Fare Thee, Honey, Fare Thee Well" / "I'll See You In The Spring, When The Birds Begin To Sing".


And there's also a little resemblance to "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean".