Artist: Lambert Murphy
Author: Stephen Foster
Label: Victor
Year: 1922
Foster originally wrote it as I Dream Of Jennie for his wife Jane McDonald (he called Jennie). Officially published in 1854 as 'Jeanie'.
Covers:
Don Ameche [in film Swanee River about the life and times of Stephen Foster (there's a Stephen Foster Museum in north Florida, where the real Suwannee River flows)]
Virginia O'Brien [in film Hullabaloo]
Spike Jones [as I Dream Of Brownie With The Light Blue Jeans]
Bill Shirley, Ray Middleton, Eileen Christy [in film I Dream Of Jeanie]
Roger McGuinn [on Stephen Foster tribute Beautiful Dreamer]
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)