Artist: Albert Campbell
Author: Harry Braisted/Stanley Carter
Label: Edison Gold
Year: 1898
English tune (as The Girl I Left Behind Me) circulating in America since the Civil War. See also: Waxie's Dargle.
Covers:
Columbia Drum Fife And Bugle Corps [as The Girl I Left Behind Me]
US Marine Fife And Drum Corps [as The Girl I Left Behind Me]
Arthur Pryor's Band [idem]
John McCormack [idem]
Victor Military Band [idem]
Jasper Bisbee [as a fiddle tune]
Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers [during their first session for Columbia; hit C&W as The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee]
Vernon Dalhart [as The Girl I Left Behind Me]
Ernest V. Stoneman [as The Girl I Left Behind In Sunny Tennessee]
Skillet Lickers [as The Girl I Left Behind Me]
Fiddlin' John Carson [as Sunny Tennessee]
Dixon Brothers [as Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee; Dorsey & Howard, inspiring The Louvin Brothers]
Woody Guthrie [on fiddle with Bess Lomax Hawes on mandoline and Butch Hawes on banjo]
Bob Wills [as The Girl I Left Behind Me]
Flatt & Scruggs [as My Little Girl In Tennessee]
Wade Mainer [as The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee]
Bill Clifton [as The Girl I Left Behind In Sunny Tennessee]
Tennessee Ernie Ford [as The Girl I Left Behind Me]
Pete Seeger [as The Girl I Left Behind Me]
Chieftains [on Bringing It All Back Home with John Prine]
Hot Club Of Cowtown [as The Girl I Left Behind Me]
Levon Helm [idem]
John Hartford [idem]
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)