Artist: Jo Stafford
Author: Irving Gordon
Label: Columbia
Year: 1951
Author Irving Gordon also wrote Unforgettable and Be Anything But Be Mine (see there).
Covers:
Kingston Trio [shelved]
Edith Piaf [as Les Prisons du Roy; lyrics: Michel Rivgauche]
Springfields [Dusty Springfield and her brother Tom]
Marianne Faithfull [in French]
17th century thematic origin: Les Prisons de Nantes (see there), also covered by Piaf (with Les Compagnons de la Chanson in '46), comes with a completely different melody. There's a Venetian variation, also 17th century, situated in and around the Mantua prison.
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Arnold Rypens
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