YOU'VE BEEN A GOOD OLD WAGON (BUT YOU'VE DONE BROKE DOWN)

Created on 03/06/2021
Latest update on 30/12/2021

Artist: Len Spencer
Author: Benjamin Harney/John Biller
Label: Columbia cylinder
Year: 1897

Coon ragtime tune.

Covers:

1898:

Arthur Collins [for Edison]

1925:

Bessie Smith [with Louis Armstrong as slow blues with different lyrics, crediting Bessie Smith/Stuart Balcom]

1947:

Lil Green

1958:

Dinah Washington

1958:

Della Reese

1962:

Barbara Dane [as Good Old Wagon]

1963:

Judy Henske [idem]

1963:

Dave Van Ronk

1966:

Hoyt Axton

1972:

Teresa Brewer

1982:

Sippie Wallace

1998:

Candye Kane

2010:

Ann Savoy

2016:

Rodney Crowell

2016:

David Bromberg

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