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Artist: Billy Murray
Author: Stephen Foster
Label: Victor
Year: 1911
Written in 1850. Creole 19th century composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) used De Camptown Races' main theme in the intro of The Banjo, Op. 15 and it even inspired Jingle Bells in a way.
Covers:
Wendell Hall & Shannon Four [as Gwine To Run All Night]
Nat Shilkret [in medley]
Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney [in Babes In Arms]
Frank Sinatra & Lawrence Tibbett [in a Stephen Foster medley]
Sam Cooke [as Camptown Twist]
Dave Clark Five [as Doo Dah; B-side of English single Do You Love Me]
Cartoons [as DooDah; hit all over Europe]
Duhks [on Stephen Foster tribute Beautiful Dreamer]
Stephen Foster rides again, the man who also wrote Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair, Oh! Susanna, My Old Kentucky Home and The Old Folks At Home (Way Down Upon The Swanee River). See also A Pub With No Beer.
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)