Artist: Pete Seeger
Author: traditional
Label: Disc
Year: 1947
On 10" album Songs To Grow On (Nursery Days); in 1950 new version as lullaby All The Pretty Little Horses.
Covers:
Gordon Heath & Lee Payant [as All The Pretty Horses]
Peggy Seeger [as Go To Sleep]
Odetta [as All The Pretty Little Horses]
Alan Lomax [idem; names it the classic of Southern lullabies; his mother and grandmother worked it out on him as a toddler]
Texas Gladden [as Whole Heap Of Little Horses; reissued on Ballads And Breakdowns - Songs From The Southern Mountains Vol. 2 in the Alan Lomax Collection]
Peter, Paul & Mary [as Hush-A-Bye]
Journeymen [as All The Pretty Little Horses]
Fannie Lou Hamer [idem]
Big 3 [idem]
Esther & Abi Ofarim [as Hushaby]
Marie Laforêt [as Coule doux]
Holly Cole [as All The Pretty Little Horses]
Shawn Colvin [idem]
Kristin Hersh [at the end of her cd Murder, Misery And Then Goodnight]
Calexico [as All The Pretty Horses]
Chieftains [in Nashville with Patty Griffin]
Judy Collins [as All The Pretty Horses]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)