BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF SOMEWHERE
Created on 26/06/2006Latest update on 01/06/2023
Artist: Euterpean Quartette
Author: Jessie Pounds/John Fearis
Year: 1901
Copyright year: 1897. Lyrics fit for funerals and that's exactly where this female quartette performed it: at the funeral of 'martyred' president William McKinley, jointly portrayed on the sheet music.
Covers:
- 1908:
Harold Jarvis [probable first recording (Victor); song following him post mortem: "Harold Jarvis has gone to the Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere"]
- 1908:
Harry Anthony & James F. Harrison [for Edison; Anthony's next release was Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland, the original name of the entertainment part of Coney Island, NY]
- 1916:
- 1934:
Willy Derby [as Droomland]
- 1950:
- 1950:
Frans van Schaik [idem; also with Ans Heidendaal]
- 1955:
- 1967:
Heintje [as Droomland and in '69 as Traumland]
- 1993:
André Hazes & Paul de Leeuw [hit NL as Droomland]
- 1999:
Michael Junior [as Droomland, as Rêver and as Traumland]
- 2000:
- 2010:
Tangarine [as Dreamland]
