PEGGY GORDON
Created on 20/10/2002Latest update on 06/04/2024
Artist: Bill Gooley
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1957
Canadian recording. Probably a traditional from Nova Scotia, while mostly viewed as Irish or Scottish (the places mentioned: Old Meldrum, Fyvie and Aberdeen are all Scottish). Linked with Carrickfergus, The Water Is Wide and The Banks Of The Sweet Primroses. Was a broadside in Boston in the 1830s, crediting Charles Dibdin.
Covers:
- 1960s:
- 1960s:
Alan Mills & Jean Carignan [on Songs, Fiddle Tunes and a Folk Tale From Canada (Folkways)]
- 1966:
LaRena Clark [also from Canada]
- 1968:
- 1972:
Ted Ashlaw [singer from the Adirondacks]
- 1976:
- 1985:
- 1987:
- 2002:
Sinéad O'Connor [whispering it without gender-change]
- 2005:
- 2012:
Chieftains [with the Corrs]
