SWISS CRADLE SONG
Created on 28/02/2003Latest update on 02/11/2024
Artist: Clement Scott
Author: Albert Saunders
Year: 1913
New Zealand (Maori) traditional (Po Ata Rau, means: Now Is The Hour), played at all kinds of farewell. First published as piano tune in Australia. Royalties claimed (and finally obtained in 1948) by the heirs of Albert Saunders, a brassband musician from Moree, New South Wales. Clement Scott was his stage name. Sometimes Maori Maewa Kaihau is co-credited.
Covers:
- 1919:
Dick Grace & Awatere Family [as Po Atarau, with two Maori stanzas]
- 1920:
Maewa Kaihau [as Haere Ra Waltz Song (new words on Po Atarau); for the Prince of Wales (the actual King Charles III) while leaving New Zealand]
- 1947:
Gracie Fields [as Now Is The Hour; English words: Dorothy Stewart, her manager]
- 1947:
Bing Crosby [n°1 US as Now Is The Hour (Maori farewell song), his 42nd and last n°1]
- 1947:
Eddy Howard [idem]
- 1947:
Margaret Whiting [idem]
- 1959:
Connie Francis [idem]
- 1961:
Everly Brothers [idem]
- 1973:
Ma-wai-hakona Musical Group [as Po Atarau]
- 1974:
Hank Snow [as Now Is The Hour]
