Artist: Bessie Calkins Shipman
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1920
First collected by James Orchard Halliwell around 1840 (as Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush). Same melody re-used for nursery rhyme The Wheels On The Bus by Verna Hills in 1939.
Covers:
Fats Waller [as Stop Beatin' Around The Mulberry Bush]
Count Basie [idem]
Tommy Dorsey [idem]
Charity Bailey [as Going To Boston]
Bill Haley [as Stop Beatin' Around The Mulberry Bush]
Jean Ritchie [as Goin' To Boston]
Pete Seeger [idem]
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers [as The Wheels On The Bus]
Mad Donna [as The Wheels On The Bus; top 20 UK]
Kapitein Winokio [as De Wielen Van De Bus]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)