Artist: Carter Family
Author: A.P. Carter
Label: Victor
Year: 1927
Amongst their very first recordings during the famous Bristol Sessions for Ralph Peer. Just Sara & Maybelle singing. Also selected by Harry Smith for his Anthology Of American Folk Music. In fact circulating since the 19th century and probably British. In 1917 Cecil Sharp collected a version in Tennessee and Frank Brown found one in North Carolina in 1922.
Covers:
Jo Stafford [as Single Girl]
Kossoy Sisters [idem, with Erik Darling]
Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger [as Still I Love Him; Scots/English origin]
Ruby Vass [Lomax recording true to the Carters]
Hedy West [as Single Girl]
Pat Carroll [as Single Girl in film Songcatcher]
Sassafras [idem]
Shawn Colvin [on a Carter Family tribute]
Meindert Talma & The Negroes [as Vrijgezel Meisje]
Charlie Haden [with the Haden Triplets]
Not to be confused with I Wish I Was A Single Girl Again (see there). Sandy Posey's pop hit portraits another Single Girl (covered by Lilianne St. Pierre as Je suis une fille toute seule) and is credited to herself, Martha Sharp, her real name. Related to Cecil?
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Arnold Rypens
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