OLD BLACK JOE

Created on 03/04/2008
Latest update on 28/09/2022

Artist: William Tuson
Author: Stephen Foster
Label: Phonograph
Year: 1897

Clarinet solo.

Covers:

1898:

Craig Thomas [on Berliner disc; oldest vocal version, reissued on cd set Lost Sounds (see also: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child)]

1902:

Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan

1904:

Edison Quartet

1909:

Sousa's Band

1909:

Fisk Jubilee Singers [reissued on cd The Roots Of Van Morrison]

1913:

Knickerbocker Quartet

1915:

Alma Gluck

1919:

Henry Burr [as They'll Be Mighty Proud In Dixie Of Their Old Black Joe]

1930:

Paul Robeson [as Poor Old Joe]

1935:

Gene Krupa

1935:

Sons Of The Pioneers

1938:

Glenn Miller

1950:

Al Jolson

1960:

Jerry Lee Lewis [with the Gene Lowery Singers]

1970:

Johnny Cash

1971:

Jim Kweskin

1971:

Dave Edmunds [as I'm Coming Home]

2000:

Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis

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