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If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: anonymus
Author: Ada Blenkhorn/Howard Entwisle
Label: cylinder
Year: 1910
Author Howard wanted coauthor Ada to push his wheelchair on the sunny side of the street. They wrote it in 1899. First published in 1903, the year composer Entwisle died.
Covers:
Carter Family [as Keep On The Sunny Side; became their theme song; it even shows on A.P. Carter's very grave]
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band [with Mother Maybelle Carter and Doc Watson]
Whites [in film O Brother, Where Art Thou?]
The Carters knew this song through their uncle Laish. Not to be confused with the Keep On The Sunny Side written by Jack Drislane/Theodore F Morse and recorded in 1906 by both Billy Murray and Byron Harlan.
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)