Artist: Bonnie Dobson
Author: Bonnie Dobson
Label: Prestige
Year: 1962
On a live album recorded in Gerde's Folk City, New York, Hootenanny With Bonnie Dobson. First published in Broadside #7 as Take Me For A Walk. Her warning against a nuclear holocaust was inspired by the film On The Beach and blew every Broadside reader's mind. The first song she ever wrote. See also: Come Away Melinda.
Covers:
Briarwood Singers [as Walk Me Out In The Morning Dew; Bonnie sang: Take me for a walk...]
Fred Neil & Vince Martin [idem]
Tim Rose [heard Neil's version, recorded his own, took his own credit and was regarded as the author while Bonnie Dobson had neglected to publish her song before recording it]
Grateful Dead [on debut album]
Human Beans [with Dave Edmunds]
Séverine [as Mama dis-moi pourquoi]
Clannad [title track lp]
The Morning Dew as by The Chieftains (on Chieftains 4) is an old fiddle tune first recorded by Michael Coleman for Victor in 1927.
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