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Artist: McCartt Brothers & Patterson
Author: Garley Foster
Label: Columbia
Year: 1929
As Green Valley Waltz. The same Garley Foster who wrote Who's Gonna Kiss Your Lips, Dear Darli ng (see there).
Covers:
Renfro Valley Boys [first as Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet for Paramount]
Monroe Brothers [as Little Red Shoes]
Hackberry Ramblers [as Green Valley Waltz]
Wayne Raney [as Green Valley Waltz]
Tennessee Ernie Ford [inspired Duane Eddy's Rebel Rouser ('59)]
Everly Brothers [on Songs Our Daddy Taught Us]
Rayburn Anthony [for Sun]
Kingston Trio [as Who's Gonna Hold Her Hand]
Harry Belafonte [as Who's Gonna Be Your Man]
Tom Paley & Peggy Seeger [title track LP, also holding their version of The Lass Of Loch Royal]
Willy DeVille [Live in Berlin]
Lyrical roots in Child Ballad #76, more precisely in the Lass Of Loch Royal variation (see there), first published in Robert Jamieson's Popular Ballads And Songs (1806). No musical connection. Who will shoe your pretty feet is also a lyric line in The Storms Are On The Ocean by The Carter Family (1928).
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)
Belgium