WILL YOU GO, LASSIE, GO
Created on 20/12/2008Latest update on 12/02/2024
Artist: Frank McPeake
Author: John Richard Douglas
Label: HMV
Year: 1955
Scottish ballad, based on a song by Robert Tannahill (The Braes Of Balquhither), first recorded by P.S. Richardson (1911 - Columbia & Regal). Peter Kennedy recording in 1952.
Covers:
- 1957:
McPeake Family [as Wild Mountain Thyme; vocal: Francis McPeake]
- 1961:
Bob Dylan [idem, on his Minnesota Tapes and in 1969 at the Isle Of Wight]
- 1962:
Judy Collins [as Wild Mountain Thyme]
- 1962:
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem [as Will Ye Go Lassie Go]
- 1963:
Bonnie Dobson [idem]
- 1964:
Paul Clayton [idem]
- 1965:
Joan Baez [idem; and in '75 with Bob Dylan during Rolling Thunder Revue]
- 1965:
New Christy Minstrels [as Go, Lassie Go]
- 1966:
Marianne Faithfull [idem]
- 1966:
Byrds [idem]
- 1966:
- 1969:
- 1970:
Fotheringay [on Fotheringay 2, officially released in 2008]
- 1970:
- 1972:
- 1973:
Van Morrison [as Purple Heather on Hardnose The Highway; according to Van one of the greatest things I'd ever heard. Period. On record or off record]
- 1973:
Strawbs [as Will You Go]
- 1974:
- 1979:
- 1979:
- 1981:
Phil Coulter [as Purple Heather]
- 1982:
- 1985:
Pogues [tune of A Pair Of Brown Eyes]
- 1986:
Christy Moore [idem]
- 1986:
Peter Case [idem]
- 1987:
Tannahill Weavers [Scottish]
- 1993:
Glenn Frey [crediting Bert Jansch]
- 1995:
Rod Stewart [as Purple Heather]
- 1996:
- 1996:
- 1998:
- 2001:
- 2002:
Mark Knopfler [in film A Shot At Glory]
- 2003:
Chieftains [with Don Williams]
- 2003:
- 2007:
- 2007:
Kate Rusby [as Blooming Heather]
- 2007:
- 2008:
- 2011:
- 2015:
- 2015:
- 2017:
- 2022:
Cat Power [as A Pair Of Brown Eyes]
- 2023:
Rufus Wainwright [as Wild Mountain Thyme with his aunt Anna McGarrigle, half sister Lucy Wainwright Roche and Chaim Tannenbaum playing the banjo of his mother Kate]
