MULBERRY BUSH, THE

Created on 18/08/2020
Latest update on 15/03/2024

Artist: Bessie Calkins Shipman
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1920

First collected by James Orchard Halliwell around 1840 (as Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush). Same melody re-used for nursery rhyme The Wheels On The Bus by Verna Hills in 1939.

Covers:

1937:

Fats Waller [as Stop Beatin' Around The Mulberry Bush]

1938:

Count Basie [idem]

1938:

Tommy Dorsey [idem]

1951:

Charity Bailey [as Going To Boston]

1952:

Bill Haley [as Stop Beatin' Around The Mulberry Bush]

1953:

Cisco Houston

1954:

Jean Ritchie [as Goin' To Boston]

1958:

Pete Seeger [idem]

1977:

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers [as The Wheels On The Bus]

2002:

Mad Donna [as The Wheels On The Bus; top 20 UK]

2010:

Kapitein Winokio [as De Wielen Van De Bus]

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