Artist: Billy Cotton
Author: Jimmy Kennedy/Michael Carr
Label: Rex
Year: 1939
Vocal by Alan Breeze. British original.
Covers:
Theo Uden Marsman & The Ramblers [vocal by Hal Yates]
Nat Gonella [another Brit]
Al Bowlly [idem]
Gene Autry [in film South Of The Border; seeing Gene Autry sing this song from up on his horse Champion, that's what triggered young Richy 'Ringo' Starkey into music, C&W in the first place]
Shep Fields [n°1 US]
Bob Scholte [as Toch Moet Je Niet Huilen]
Gino Santercole [as Stella d'Argento]
Herb Alpert [title track lp]
Theo Diepenbrock [as Stella d'Argento in German]
Ronny Temmer [as In Mijn Gedachten]
Claudio Villa [as Serenata Messicana]
Corry Konings [as Jij Bent Een Zeeman]
Dragoni [as Stella d'Argento]
Riders In The Sky [on Gene Autry tribute]
Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr, both Englishmen, also co-wrote We're Gonna Hang Out The Washing On The Siegfried Line.
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)