Artist: Billy Murray
Author: Theodore Morse/Edward Madden
Label: Victor
Year: 1903
About two boyhood friends, Joe & Jack, on horseback throughout their (short) lives; from hobby horse to the cavalry; their war game became deadly serious.
Covers:
Dixon Brothers [as Two Little Boys]
Brandywine Singers [idem]
Country Gentlemen [idem]
Rolf Harris [hit Australia, n°1 UK]
Kenny Rogers [idem]
Irish Rovers [idem]
Billy Connolly [as Two Little Boys In Blue]
Splodgenessabounds [hit UK]
Madden also wrote By The Light Of The Silvery Moon and Moonlight Bay; Morse wrote Keep On The Sunny Side and Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here!
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)