IN THE QUARTERMASTER'S STORES
Created on 27/01/2023Latest update on 05/04/2024
Artist: Al & Bob Harvey
Author: Cox/Box/Bert Read
Label: Decca
Year: 1940
Roud #10508. Was a staple among volunteers with the Lincoln Battalion during the Spanish Civil War, possibly even among British and ANZAC troops during WW I, as a barrack version of a camp meeting hymn written in 1899; see There Is Power In The Blood.
Covers:
- 1940:
Murgatroyd & Winterbottom [alias Ronald Frankau & Tommy Handley, comedy duo with BBC radio ten days after Al & Bob for Parlophone]
- 1940:
Billy Cotton [another day later]
- 1940:
Ambrose [also for Decca]
- 1942:
Pete Seeger [with Tom Glazer, Bess Lomax and her husband Baldwin Hawes on Asch album Songs Of The Lincoln Brigade as Quartermaster Song; the booklet with Smithsonian Folkways cd Songs Of The Spanish Civil War ('14) tells the whole story of this hymn ending up in a trivial attack on the quality of soldier's food in wartime; see There Is Power In The Blood]
- 1960:
Shadows [as Quartermaster's Stores, B-side of n°1 UK Apache]
- 1964:
Burl Ives [on album Scouting Along]
