MOLLY BAWN

Created on 26/09/2022
Latest update on 11/03/2024

Artist: John McCormack
Author: traditional
Label: Victrola
Year: 1911

Roud #166 (also as Polly Vaughn, Polly Von, The Shooting Of His Dear and Fowler Jack (The Fowler).

Covers:

1947:

Harry Cox [as The Fowler; E.J. Moeran recording for the BBC, released on cd East Anglia Sings ('00); a Peter Kennedy recording from '53 came out on Caedmon in '61]

1950:

Seamus Ennis

1950s:

Elisabeth Cronin [released on Topic's Voice Of The People series Vol 23]

1951:

A.L. Lloyd [as The Shooting Of His Dear and as Polly Vaughan for Alan Lomax at the BBC]

1956:

John Jacob Niles [as Molly Vaughn]

1959:

Shirley Collins [as Polly Vaughn]

1963:

Dillards [idem]

1963:

Peter, Paul & Mary [as Polly Von]

1964:

Anne Briggs [as Polly Vaughan]

1967:

Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick [as The Fowler]

1968:

Peter Bellamy [as The Shooting Of His Dear]

1968:

Dubliners

1972:

Ewan MacColl [as The Fowler]

1976:

Bothy Band [als Molly Ban]

1976:

Hedy West

1986:

Oysterband [as Molly Bond]

2002:

Chieftains & Alison Krauss [as Molly Ban]

2008:

Peggy Seeger [as Molly Bond]

2008:

Chris de Burgh [as Polly Von]

2008:

Bonnie Prince Billy

2010:

Jon Boden

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