BANKS OF THE NILE

Created on 22/09/2022
Latest update on 20/05/2023

Artist: Sidney Richards
Author: traditional
Label: Caedmon/Topic
Year: 1952

Peter Kennedy recording in Somerset, released on anthology A Soldier's Life For Me. Roud #950. Napoleon song, dating from 1801 (General Abercrombie's campaign to Egypt). The oldest recording surviving (on cylinder) was released in '86 on Dambuster lp An Hour With Cecil Sharp And Ashley Hutchings.

Covers:

1956:

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger

1968:

Young Tradition

1970:

Fotheringay [with Sandy Denny]

1973:

A.L. Lloyd

1988:

Martin Carthy

1997:

Dolores Keane

1999:

Niamh Parsons

2011:

Jon Boden

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