DAYS OF 49

Created on 21/10/2013
Latest update on 14/09/2023

Artist: Jules Allen
Author: Charles Bensell
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1929

Song about the gold rush in California in 1849 ("In the days of old when we dug up the gold"). Oldest source: 1872 by Emerson's Minstrels in San Francisco.

Covers:

1941:

Yankee John Galusha [Frank Warner recording in New York State; Alan Lomax & Frank Warner share credits]

1946:

Frank Warner

1957:

Logan English

1963:

Milt Okun

1970:

Bob Dylan [on Self Portrait]

1972:

Steve Young

1974:

Spider John Koerner

1974:

Fairport Convention

1977:

Jim Kweskin

1996:

Ed McCurdy

2003:

Dave Swarbrick

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