SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME

Created on 21/12/2016
Latest update on 28/05/2025

Artist: Hal Swain's New Princes' Toronto Band
Author: Jimmy Campbell/Reg Connolly/Hal Swain
Label: Columbia
Year: 1925

Both British coauthors Campbell & Connolly signed under alias Irving King (see also: On The Midnight Special). According to Reg Connolly Hal Swain just made the suggestion to write this song.

Covers:

1925:

Vernons [UK comedy duo Will Thompson & Stanley Kirkby for Winner]

1925:

Ella Shields [English Music Hall hit]

1925:

Nat Shilkret

1925:

Two Gilberts

1926:

Frank Crumit

1926:

Vincent Lopez [n°3 US]

1926:

California Ramblers

1926:

Kapelle Sandor Jozsi [as Ja, wenn die Liebe nicht wär]

1929:

Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers

1939:

Louis Prima

1958:

Andrews Sisters

1958:

Jimmy Giuffre 3

1959:

Crew Cuts

1964:

Blue Diamonds

1965:

Jackie Trent

1966:

Bert Kaempfert

1968:

Julie London

1968:

Noel Harrison

1968:

Freddy Quinn

1975:

Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw & Richard Dreyfuss [in film Jaws]

1977:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

2007:

Colin Farrell & Ewan McGregor [in Woody Allen film Cassandra's Dream]

2016:

Linda Thompson [with Martha Wainwright, Bob Davenport and others]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Belgium

info@originals.be

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