Artist: Wilfred Glenn & Shannon Quartet
Author: traditional
Label: Victor
Year: 1923
Irish ballad (Get Along Little Dogies) turned cowboy song since John A. Lomax collected it for his Cowboy Songs And Other Frontier Ballads (1910). Dogies are calves.
Covers:
Harry McClintock [as Get Along Little Dogies, also for Victor]
Gene Autry [in film Git Along Little Dogies]
Roy Rogers [in film West Of The Badlands]
Burl Ives [as Git Along Little Dogies]
Alan Lomax [as Git Along Little Dogies]
Ramblin' Jack Elliott [idem]
Bing Crosby [in film How The West Was Won]
Weavers [as Get Along Little Dogies]
Kingston Trio [as Dogie's Lament]
Lorne Greene [pa Cartwright]
Riders In The Sky [as Get Along Little Dogies]
Charlie Daniels [as Git Along Little Dogies]
Suzy Bogguss [idem]
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)