POLLY PUT THE KETTLE ON

Created on 13/07/2009
Latest update on 28/09/2022

Artist: Male Quartette
Author: trad
Label: Little Wonder
Year: 1918

Popular English language nursery rhyme. Mentioned in Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge (1841).

Covers:

1928:

Leake County Revelers [as Molly Put The Kettle On]

1930s:

Skillet Lickers [idem]

1946:

Sonny Boy Williamson [with Big Bill Broonzy & Willie Dixon]

1950:

Uncle Dave Macon [as Jenny Put The Kettle On]

1953:

Doctor Ross [for Sun]

1953:

Roy Acuff

1957:

Jean Ritchie [as Jenny Put The Kettle On]

1961:

Glenn Smith

1962:

New Lost City Ramblers [as Molly Put The Kettle On]

1963:

James Cotton

1970:

Alexis Korner

1977:

Red Clay Ramblers [as Molly Put The Kettle On]

1978:

Walter Horton

1996:

John Hartford [as Molly Put The Kettle On]

2008:

Billy Boy Arnold

2008:

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Not to be confused with Billy Murray's recording with the American Quartet in 1924.

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