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:
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers [with Riley Puckett as You Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around]
Erik Darling [as Every Time I Go To Town]
Sheila [n°1 Fr as Le Folklore Americain co-crediting Nick Woods-Vivian and Scott Holtzmann]
Caravelli [idem]
Ria Valk [as Reng-Deng-Deng]
Bob Dylan [unreleased Basement Tape as Don't Know They Kick My Dog]
Trea Dobbs [as Du hasst mir einen Hund geschenkt]
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)