Artist: Geraldine Farrar
Author: Nelson Kneass/Thomas Dunn English
Label: Monarch Gramophone
Year: 1911
Roud #2653. Also as (Oh Don't You Remember) Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt. Using a poem by English (from 1842) for the lyrics. Charles Ives used this ballad in hin musical Central Park In The Dark in 1906.
Covers:
Elsie Baker [for Victor]
Vivian Leigh [sang a few lines in film Gone With The Wind]
Muggsy Spanier [as Sweet Alice Ben Bolt]
Johnny McEvoy [as Alice Ben Bolt]
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)