BLOW, GABRIEL, BLOW

Created on 24/11/2004
Latest update on 28/06/2023

Artist: Enric Madriguera & his Hotel Weylin Orch.
Author: Cole Porter
Label: Victor
Year: 1934

In musical Anything Goes. Vocal: Tony Sacco & Trio. Loosely based on an existing spiritual by Frank Horn (1889). Alan Lomax recorded a version by The Kentucky Jubilee Singers (Phonograph cylinder - 1894), Fisk Jubilee Singers (1900s), John Davis, Rev. Gary Davis and Bessie Jones & The St. Simon's Island Singers in '59.

Covers:

1934:

Ethel Merman

1956:

Bing Crosby, Mitzi Gaynor, Donald O'Connor & Zizi Jeanmaire [in film Anything Goes]

1998:

Helen Reddy

2004:

Kevin Kline [as Cole Porter in film De-Lovely]

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