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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Joseph Taylor
Author: traditional
Label: Leader
Year: 1908
Wax cylinder recording by Percy Grainger in Lincolnshire, released in '72 on Leader LP Unto Brigg Fair. See also: Lord Bateman and Brigg Fair. Roud #77, also known as Brisk Young Sailor, Bold Young Farmer and as I Wish (My Baby Was Born). Rooted in the early 1600s.
Covers:
Isla Cameron [on World Library Of Folk & Primitive Music: England in the Alan Lomax Collection]
Elsie Morrison [as I Wish, I Wish; Hamish Henderson recording]
Sam Larner [as I Wish I Wish]
Charlotte Higgins [idem; Hamish Henderson recording]
Elizabeth Cronin [as The Alehouse]
Dubliners [as I Wish (Till Apples Grow); vocal: Ronnie Drew]
Queen Caroline Hughes [Peter Kennedy recording, released in '12 on cd I'm A Romany Rai (Voice Of The People series Vol 22)]
John Renbourn [as Bold Young Farmer; vocal: Jacqui McShee]
Tim O'Brien [as I Wish My Baby Was Born]
Be Good Tanyas [idem]
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset [as I Wish]
Eva Cassidy [as A Bold Young Farmer; posthumous release]
Unthanks [on Mount The Air and on 45]
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)