LONG LONG AGO
Created on 14/02/2008Latest update on 21/02/2024
Artist: George Schweinfest
Author: Thomas Bayly
Label: Victor
Year: 1901
Instrumental on piccolo. Sidekick in the oldest recorded Arkansaw Traveler (see there). Written in 1833 as The Long Ago, first published and a hit in 1843.
Covers:
- 1904:
- 1908:
Roxy King [first vocal version recorded]
- 1909:
- 1913:
- 1916:
- 1916:
Tonika Frese [as Lang, lang ist's her]
- 1937:
- 1941:
- 1942:
Andrews Sisters [melody in Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree in film Private Buckaroo]
- 1942:
Glenn Miller [idem; n°1 US]
- 1943:
Kay Kyser [idem]
- 1949:
- 1950:
- 1960:
René & The Alligators [as Knockin' On Your Window]
- 1961:
Peter Kraus [as Lang, lang ist's her]
- 1983:
Arbeid Adelt! [as Roodborstje on EP Jonge Helden, correctly mentioning the Long Long Ago link (see footnote)]
- 1989:
- 2000:
Gorillaz [violin in Left Hand Suzuki Method]
- 2007:
Dutch children song Roodborstje Tikt Tegen 't Raam uses the same tune. Lyrics were written by JJA Goeverneur (as Het Roodborstje Aan Het Venster) and published in songbook De Zingende Kinderwereld in 1866. His poem was translated from German poem Fogel am Fenster by Wilhelm Hey, first published in Fümfzig Fabeln für Kinder in 1833, the very same year the original English melody was written.
