WITH THESE HANDS

Created on 16/04/2002
Latest update on 03/03/2023

Artist: Dick Brown
Author: Benny Davis/Abner Silver
Label: Jubilee
Year: 1950

Inspired by a documentary produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster (a raging fire in a New York assembly line in 1911 counting 146 casualties). Benny Davis also wrote Margie and Baby Face.

Covers:

1951:

Nelson Eddy & Jo Stafford

1953:

Johnnie Ray

1953:

Eddie Fisher

1953:

Tony Middleton

1959:

Jean Walter [as Met Die Handen]

1960:

Shirley Bassey

1965:

Tom Jones

1966:

P.J. Proby

1969:

Jackie Wilson

1971:

Manhattans

1971:

Roberta Flack

1984:

André Hazes

2001:

Garry Hagger

Contact


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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

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