RED WING (AN INDIAN FABLE)

Created on 05/10/2008
Latest update on 20/12/2023

Artist: Henry Burr & Frank Stanley
Author: Kerry Mills/Thurland Chattaway
Label: Columbia
Year: 1907

Using Robert Schumann's melody for Fröhlicher Landmann (1878). Not to be confused with Fröhliche Wanderer (see there).

Covers:

1907:

Frederich H. Potter [for Edison Gold Moulded]

1915:

Albert Bol [as In De Mei (Dan Moet Je Vrijen)]

1924:

Ernest Thompson

1941:

Almanac Singers [as Union Maid; see there]

1946:

Spade Cooley

1947:

Sam Donahue & his Orch. [top 10 US]

1950s:

Spike Jones

1954:

Chet Atkins

1954:

George Lewis

1955:

Kinderkoor De Karekieten [as Hij Komt, Hij Komt, Die Lieve Goede Sint, words by Katharina Leopold who translated Fröhlicher Landmann in 1899, that's well before Kerry Mills translated it as Red Wing; see also: Freut euch des Lebens]

1956:

Leeuwerikken [idem]

1957:

Amsterdams Kinderkoor [idem]

1957:

Little Jimmy Dickens

1959:

Elton Britt

1959:

Sammy Masters [as Rockin' Red Wing]

1961:

Teddy, Henk & René Scholten [as Hij Komt, Hij Komt]

1963:

Terry Van Ginderen [idem]

1968:

Arthur Smith & Don Reno [as Pretty Red Wing]

1969:

Ventures

1971:

Slim Whitman

1977:

Grinderswitch

1979:

Damrakkertjes [as Hij Komt, Hij Komt]

1993:

Asleep At The Wheel

1996:

Bassie en Adriaan [as Hij Komt, Hij Komt]

1999:

Brave Combo

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