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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Obray Ramsey
Author: traditional
Label: Prestige
Year: 1960
On lp Sings Folksongs From The Three Laurels. First collected by Cecil Sharp in his songbook English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians (1916). The woman he heard it from was Mrs. Tom Rice from Big Laurel, NC. Benjamin Britten used the tune in Folksong Arrangement #8.
Covers:
Grateful Dead [as Cold Rain And Snow; used the Olray Ramsey version as an example]
Primitives Group [idem]
Galaxy-Lin [with Robbie van Leeuwen]
Chieftains [with the Del McCoury Band]
Bonny Light Horseman [as Cold Rain And Snow]
The Rain And Snow by Shorty Bob Parker & Kid Prince Moore (Decca - '38) is too different.
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)