THEY GOTTA QUIT KICKIN' MY DAWG AROUN'

Created on 20/11/2002
Latest update on 25/02/2023

Artist: Byron G. Harlan
Author: Webb M. Oungst/Cy Perkins
Label: Columbia
Year: 1912

Webb M. Oungst & Cy Perkins are an alias for Mrs. John Stark, wife (and tax evader) of a ragtime publisher. That same year it was used as a campaign song for Champ Clark, chairman of the House of Representatives in his failed attempt to become the Democratic presidential nominee (challenging Woodrow Wilson).

Covers:

1926:

Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers [with Riley Puckett as You Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around]

1961:

Erik Darling [as Every Time I Go To Town]

1965:

New Christy Minstrels

1965:

Sheila [n°1 Fr as Le Folklore Americain co-crediting Nick Woods-Vivian and Scott Holtzmann]

1966:

Caravelli [idem]

1966:

Ria Valk [as Reng-Deng-Deng]

1967:

Bob Dylan [unreleased Basement Tape as Don't Know They Kick My Dog]

1967:

Trea Dobbs [as Du hasst mir einen Hund geschenkt]

1968:

Buffy Sainte-Marie

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