SWEETEST GIFT, The
Created on 20/01/2004Latest update on 22/04/2024
Artist: Barn Dance Sweethearts
Author: J.B. Coats
Year: 1942
Martha & James Carson. Author J.B. Coats was a Mississippi school teacher conducting his own quartet in the 1920s. The song first came out in '42 in a songbook for radio entertainers.
Covers:
- 1947:
Bailey Brothers [early bluegrass version on The Early Days Of Bluegrass Vol. 6 (Rounder)]
- 1948:
James And Martha [the same as the original]
- 1949:
- 1973:
- 1975:
Linda Ronstadt [with Emmylou Harris, second voice]
- 1976:
- 1986:
Seldom Scene [bluegrass live version with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt]
- 1987:
Judds [knew it from Hazel & Alice]
- 1988:
- 1992:
Erik & Sanne [as Een Stukje Hemel]
- 1994:
Trisha Yearwood [on Christmas album The Sweetest Gift]
- 2002:
