Artist: Will Lyle
Author: traditional
Label: Edison
Year: 1889
Carl Sandburg claims this song dates back to the 1870s.
Covers:
Wendell Hall [n°1 US as It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'; also popular in UK; Hall codified what already existed, just added a few original verses and credited himself]
Fiddlin' John Carson [idem]
Ernest Hare & Billy Jones [idem]
Original Memphis Five [idem]
Billy Murray & Ed Smalle [idem]
Vernon Dalhart [under alias Bob White]
DeFord Bailey [as Ain't Gonna Rain No More]
Savoy Orpheans [as It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo']
Tom Waits [live in Washington, DC]
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)