LEAVE THEM A FLOWER

Created on 21/06/2006
Latest update on 15/02/2024

Artist: Wally Whyton
Author: Wally Whyton
Label: Fontana
Year: 1969

British radio & TV personality (Country Meets Folk and children programs) and one-time member of The Vipers Skiffle Group (see also: No Other Baby). First sang it in his own Country Meets Folk radio show the day they knocked down some oak trees in his street.

Covers:

1969:

Ed Ames [one of the Ames Brothers solo; on his cover lp Love Of The Common People]

1970:

Louis Neefs [as Laat Ons Een Bloem]

1972:

Ian Campbell

1982:

Anne Lorne Gillies [Scottish ballad singer]

2000:

Günther Neefs [as Laat Ons Een Bloem on Louis Neefs 20 Jaar Later, in duet with his father's voice and with Toots Thielemans]

2006:

Yevgueni [idem; Zo Is Er Maar Eén winner, a Belgian tv format set up to find the ultimate Flemish song; 5 out of 7 songs making that shortlist were covers from abroad]

2020:

#LikeMe cast [idem; top 10 VL]

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