MOON SHINES BRIGHT, THE
Created on 30/04/2020Latest update on 06/10/2024
Artist: Valley Folk
Author: traditional
Label: Topic
Year: 1968
Gypsy carol from Sussex and Surrey. On LP All Bells In Paradise - Carols for All Seasons.
Covers:
- 1974:
Jasper Smith [on album The Travelling Songster: An Anthology from Gypsy Singers and on Voice of the People series Vol 11]
- 1978:
Shirley Collins [with sister Dolly on flute organ]
- 1987:
- 1990:
- 1998:
- 2011:
- 2012:
Freda Black [Sam Lee's inspiration]
- 2020:
Sam Lee [with Elizabeth Fraser; see also: The Moon Shined On My Bed Last Night]
Peter Kennedy and Maud Karpeles recorded a version in the 1950s by Albert Beale in Kent, released on You Never Heard It So Sweet in the Voice of the People series in 2011. Cecil Sharp heard a version by Albert's sister Alice Harden in 1911 and by his dad James Beale in 1908, collected in Steve Roud's folk compendium Still Growing - English Traditional Songs and Singers from the Cecil Sharp Collection (2003).
