Artist: Karl Karlsson Jularbo & Helge Erichsson
Author: Karl Jularbo
Label: Odeon
Year: 1915
Swedish accordion player. Means Life In The Finnish Woods.
Covers:
Eberhardt Jularbo [son of the author, triggering a new version by his father (as Calle Jularbo)]
Pinetoppers [als Mockin' Bird Hill crediting Vaughn Horton, a miner from Pennsylvania who wrote lyrics to this waltz in the thirties; top 10 US]
Burl Ives [idem]
Les Paul & Mary Ford [idem; n°2 US]
Patti Page [idem; n°2 US]
Alice Babs [as Adress: Rosenhill; n°1 in Sweden]
Thory Bernhards [idem]
Bobbejaan Schoepen [as Mijn Heideland]
Spelbrekers [as De Spotvogel]
Lammy van den Hout [as De Spotvogel Fluit]
Russ Morgan [as Mockin' Bird Hill]
Ronnie Ronalde [yodeling, whistling and singing]
Ria Valk [as De Spotvogel Fluit]
Migil Five [Bluebeat arrangement, top 10 UK; inspiring Roots Syndicate's version; with blind Lennie Peters, later with Peters & Lee (see: Vivre!)]
Claude François [as La Ferme du bonheur]
Firebirds [as Naar Het Strand]
Gaby Haas [as Life In The Finland Woods Waltz]
Donna Fargo [top 10 C&W]
Herr Seele & The Four One & Only's [as De Runderen]
Roots Syndicate [first used for a '92 commercial for insurance company Centraal Beheer from Apeldoorn, NL ('Even Apeldoorn bellen'), later worked out as a full song, using the Migil Five arrangement; n°1 NL]
Jeff Beck [on his Les Paul tribute]
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)