Artist: Coleman Brothers
Author: Lander Coleman
Label: Manor/Regis
Year: 1943
Five brothers from Newark. Wallace Coleman was the father of Cynthia Coleman, alias Ann Cole (see: Mojo Working).
Covers:
Coleman Brothers [as New Milky White Way]
Trumpeteers [Baltimore quartet on Aladdin's gospel label, example for the Presley version; they also doo-wopped as The (Four) Rockers]
Prof. James Earle Hines & His Goodwill Singers [as Heavenly Highway]
Floyd Dixon [for Modern]
Little Richard [on End and before Elvis]
Elvis Presley [opening track of his first gospel lp, with a wink to his dear mother in heaven: "I'm gonna tell my mother Hi-di when I get home"]
Thomas Shaw [as Milky Highway]
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)