HANDSOME MOLLY

Created on 06/11/2005
Latest update on 09/03/2024

Artist: Grayson & Whitter
Author: G.B. Grayson
Label: Gennett
Year: 1927

Later that year on Victor (Ralph Peer). Appalachian mountain ballad with origins in the British Isles. Roud #454.

Covers:

1952:

Winnie Ryan [as Going To Mass Last Sunday: Peter Kennedy recording; it's the first line in Loving Hannah and comes halfway through Handsome Molly's]

1953:

Margaret Barry [idem; Alan Lomax recording attended by Jean Ritchie, who recognised the Loving Hannah line]

1960:

Peggy Seeger

1961:

Mike Seeger

1961:

Stanley Brothers

1961:

Glen Neaves

1961:

Neal Morris [as Breast Of Glass]

1962:

Doc Watson

1962:

Bob Dylan [Live At The Gaslight]

1962:

Frank Proffitt

1962:

Ian & Sylvia

1963:

Country Gentlemen

1963:

Hylo Brown

1965:

Jean Ritchie [as Loving Hannah; see Margaret Barry's '53 version]

1966:

Shirley & Dolly Collins [idem, on Snapshots]

1968:

Strawbs [on anthology Preserves Uncanned in '91]

1969:

Buell Kazee [as The Inconstant Lover]

1980:

Nic Jones [as Courting Is A Pleasure on Penguin Eggs]

1980:

Andy Irvine [as Farewell To Ballymoney]

1982:

Duffy Brothers

1983:

Martin Simpson

1983:

Mary Black [as Loving Hannah]

1993:

Mick Jagger [skipping the Going to mass last Sunday stanza]

1995:

Kate Rusby [as Courting Is A Pleasure]

2014:

Voice Squad [idem]

2022:

Jake Xerxes Fussell [as Breast Of Glass]

2024:

Sam Lee [as Meeting Is A Pleasant Place]

See also: Dublin Blues.

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