SEASIDE ON THE BRAIN
Created on 29/12/2021Latest update on 08/01/2023
Artist: Herman Darewski
Author: Herman Darewski/Robert Patrick Weston
Label: CHARM
Year: 1914
Bandleader in The Winter Gardens in Blackpool who only started recording in 1929 (for Parlophone). Seems Harry Fay cut a version in 1914 under alias Bert Ashton, as mentioned on the CHARM site (Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music).
Covers:
- 1915:
Henriette en Louis Davids [in Rido's revue Loop Naar De Duivel as Zandvoort; own lyrics]
- 1915:
Albert Bol [as Zandvoort Bij De Zee for Columbia]
- 1962:
Henk Elsink [idem]
- 1967:
Heikrekels [as Zandvoort Aan Zee]
- 1979:
André van Duin [idem]
Davids left his best known piece for others to record. Two other Darewski songs he did record himself: In Het Zand ('18 - Odeon) was called On The Silvery Sand originally (1910) and Zandvoort Nummer Twee ('25 - Beka) was Darewski's I want To Go To Margate.
