NOBODY'S CHILD

Created on 03/03/2006
Latest update on 24/02/2023

Artist: Hank Snow
Author: Cy Coben/Mel Foree
Label: RCA
Year: 1949

Established star on Canadian Victor. Cut following his first US RCA session. For coauthor Cy Coben's canon, see: The Great El Tigre.

Covers:

1953:

Ken Colyer's Jazzmen [with Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber]

1956:

Lonnie Donegan

1961:

Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers [prod: Bert Kaempfert]

1967:

Hank Williams Jr.

1969:

Karen Young [top 10 UK]

1969:

Willeke Alberti [as Een Kind Kijkt Ons Aan]

1977:

Lee Towers

1989:

Anneke Grönloh [and in Dutch as 'n Kind Zonder Thuis]

1990:

Traveling Wilburys [on Romanian Angel Appeal]

Romanian Angel Appeal was a charitable initiative in support of neglected orphans, shouldered by all four Beatles spouses, Olivia Harrison in particular (her husband was a Traveling Wilbury). Hank Snow sang about one blind boy. His was a party piece with the Starkeys in Liverpool. Ringo used to sing it solo in front of his family.

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