BEN BOLT

Created on 18/01/2023
Latest update on 01/11/2023

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:

1912:

Elsie Baker [for Victor]

1914:

John McCormack

1939:

Vivian Leigh [sang a few lines in film Gone With The Wind]

1941:

Muggsy Spanier [as Sweet Alice Ben Bolt]

1976:

Johnny McEvoy [as Alice Ben Bolt]

1994:

Joe Dolan

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