WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE, THE

Created on 30/04/2008
Latest update on 04/03/2023

Artist: Pierrot Players
Author: Eugene Lockhart/Ernest Seitz
Year: 1919

Song written by two Canadians for film Sweet And Lowdown. The Pierrot Players was the name of their theater company they used to tour with. This song struck the right note following this terrible war and worldwide influenza epidemy.

Covers:

1922:

John Steele

1922:

Isham Jones [best pre swing period dance orchestra]

1928:

Frank Banton [piano solo]

1941:

Jack Teagarden

1942:

Benny Goodman

1947:

Vera Lynn

1950:

Firehouse Five Plus Two

1950:

Duke Ellington

1950:

Django Reinhardt

1951:

Les Paul & Mary Ford [n°2 US]

1952:

Stan Freberg

1955:

Chris Barber

1955:

Ken Colyer

1957:

Three Suns

1961:

Don Gibson

1994:

Willie Nelson

2011:

Jeff Beck [on his Les Paul tribute with Imelda May]

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