Artist: Tuskegee Institute Singers
Author: traditional
Label: Victor
Year: 1916
Variation on spiritual The Gospel Train, first published in 1872 and on the Fisk Jubilee Singers canon since day one.
Covers:
Peerless Quintette [as De Gospel Train Am Comin']
Homer Rodeheaver & Wiseman Sextet [as The Gospel Train]
Samantha Bumgarner & Eva Davis [as Cindy In The Meadows; considered to be the oldest recording of women in country, no less]
Hill Billies [as Old Time Cinda]
Fiddlin' John Carson [as Run Along Home With Lindy]
Uncle Dave Macon [as Whoop 'Em Up, Cindy]
Gene Austin [under alias Bill Collins as Cindy for Victor]
Ford & Grace [as Kiss Me Cindy]
Vernon Dalhart [as Get Along Home Cindy]
Bascom Lamar Lunsford [idem]
Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers [als Get Along Home Miss Cindy]
Bradley Kincaid [als Cindy]
Milton Brown & His Brownies [as Get Along Cindy]
Lulu Belle & Scotty [as Get Along Home Cindy]
Roy Newman & His Boys [as Git Along Home, Cindy]
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys [as Get Along Home Cindy]
John Brown [Mississippi fiddler for the Library of Congress]
Delmore Brothers [as Git Along]
Folklore Associates [as Git Along Home, Cindy]
Johnny Duncan [as Get Along Home, Cindy]
Ricky Nelson [idem, in film Rio Bravo]
Kingston Trio [as Oh Cindy]
Collins Kids [as Get Along Home Cindy]
Duane Eddy [as Sweet Cindy]
Buffy Sainte-Marie & Pete Seeger [as Cindy]
Trini Lopez [as I'm Coming Home Cindy, hit US]
Elvis Presley [as Cindy Cindy]
Chieftains [with Ricky Skaggs]
Johnny Cash [with Nick Cave as Cindy Cindy]
Robert Plant [as Cindy, I'll Marry You Someday]
Van Morrison [as Wish I Was An Apple On A Tree, first words in Rick Nelson's version]
Oldest notation as Get Along Home Cindy in a song from The Journal Of American Folklore (1915) entitled Ain't I Goin'. Cindy, Oh Cindy by Vince Martin & The Tarriers is a different song (see there).
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)