BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME
Created on 14/06/2004Latest update on 09/07/2021
Artist: Rex Weber
Author: Yip Harburg/Jay Gorney
Year: 1932
Depression classic introduced on Broadway in revue Americana. The "Once I built a railroad"-theme slightly reminds the leitmotiv in Johann Sebastian Bach's Vivace from his Concerto for Two Violins in D minor (BWV 1043), apart from the rococo.
Covers:
- 1932:
Bing Crosby [n°1 US]
- 1932:
- 1962:
- 1964:
- 1965:
- 1966:
Chad Mitchell Trio [as Buddy Can You Spare A Dime]
- 1967:
St. Valentine's Day Massacre [The Artwoods under a new moniker]
- 1968:
- 1968:
- 1970:
- 1975:
- 1975:
- 1980:
- 1982:
- 1989:
Wim De Craene [as Gisteren]
- 1993:
Odetta & Dr. John [for the National Coalition for the Homeless in the United States]
- 1994:
- 1999:
- 2003:
Brendan Croker [on Hubert's Hootenanny]
- 2007:
- 2011:
- 2018:
Teddy Thompson [Richard & Linda's son]
