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Artist: Harry MacDonough
Author: Thomas Moore/John Stevenson
Label: Edison
Year: 1902
On a poem by Thomas Moore, friend of Byron & Shelley. He wrote it in 1813 to the tune of The Groves Of Blarney, crediting Richard Milliken from County Kilkenny. The same melody was used throughout Friedrich von Flotow's opera Martha (1847), while Mendelssohn wrote a piano Fantasia on this same theme. A first instrumental Last Rose Of Summer was recorded for cylinder by Jules Levy on cornet in 1894 (Edison) or '93 (North American).
Covers:
Jules Levy [for Victor]
Eddie Cantor [light variation with different words as Oh, The Last Rose Of Summer on Pathé]
Bobbejaan Schoepen [as Die Laatste Roos and as Die Letzte Rose]
Anneke Grönloh [as De Laatste Roos; lyrics: Ger van Leeuwen/Lodewijk Post]
Heintje [as Letzte Rose im unserem Gärten]
Zangeres Zonder Naam [as De Laatste Roos; lyrics: Johnny Hoes]
Will Tura [idem; lyrics: Nelly Byl]
Tom Waits [on The Black Rider, only for inspiration; like his Tom Traubert's Blues was inspired by Waltzing Matilda]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)