COOL WATER

Created on 21/12/2005
Latest update on 26/03/2022

Artist: Sons Of The Pioneers
Author: Bob Nolan
Label: Standard Radio transcription
Year: 1936

Written as a poem. Their first recording in '41 for Decca. Band member and author Bob Nolan also wrote Tumbling Tumbleweeds (see there).

Covers:

1937:

Sons And Daughters Of The Pioneers [with the Stafford Sisters in Peter Potter's Hollywood Barn Dance]

1940:

Bob & Randolph Atcher [for OKeh/Columbia]

1945:

Roy Rogers [in film Along The Navajo Trail]

1948:

Vaughn Monroe [with The Sons Of The Pioneers, recorded in '45; top 10 US]

1948:

Nellie Lutcher

1951:

Chico's [as Koel Water]

1951:

Kilima Hawaiians [as Koel Helder Water]

1951:

Hank Williams [Mother's Best radio transcription]

1953:

Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters

1955:

Frankie Laine & The Mellomen [n°2 UK]

1957:

Four Tunes

1959:

Roger Williams

1959:

Marty Robbins

1960:

Jack Scott

1961:

Burl Ives

1963:

Rooftop Singers

1963:

Odetta

1963:

Blue Belles

1964:

Dale & Grace

1964:

Kai Winding

1966:

Guy McFarland & Gábor Szabó

1967:

Tom Jones

1967:

Bob Dylan & The Band [Basement tape]

1969:

Johnny Nash

1978:

Leo Kottke

1982:

Fleetwood Mac

1983:

Riders In The Sky

1986:

Replacements

1988:

Joni Mitchell

1998:

Roland

2003:

Johnny Cash [on American VI]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

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