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Artist: Emile Berliner
Author: traditional
Label: Berliner Grammophon
Year: 1889
Among the very first recordings ever made. Recorded his own voice reciting a fragment of this children song on a 5 inch record for a speaking doll. In 2012 3D technology managed to re-surface a version spoken in by Thomas Edison in 1878.
Covers:
Edison Male Quartet [oldest known recording of the Mary Had A Little Lamb tune (as Merrily We Roll Along) in a medley at the end of their oldest Jingle Bells (see there)]
Collins & Harlan [in Broadway show The Wizard Of Oz as Come Take A Skate With Me]
Chubby Checker [in The Class, where Mary Had A Little Lamb was sung by pupil Fats]
Bar-Kays [intro Soul Finger]
Buddy Guy [lyric lines in Going To School (see Just Pickin')]
Wings [own melody]
Stevie Ray Vaughan [following Buddy Guy's Going To School]
Snap [in Mary Had A Little Boy, hit B, NL & UK]
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)