I'LL TAKE YOU HOME AGAIN KATHLEEN

Created on 27/03/2003
Latest update on 11/02/2023

Artist: Ernest Pike & Stanley Kirkby
Author: Thomas Westendorf
Label: Zonophone
Year: 1907

In 1910 also on Edison. Written in 1875, inspired by the song Barney, Take Me Home Again. Westendorf wrote his 'answer' while his wife was absent. Introduced at the Plainfield Town Hall, Indiana.

Covers:

1909:

Philip Ritte

1912:

Will Oakland [also on Edison]

1914:

Walter Van Brunt

1919:

Turner Roe & Orpheus Trio [for Pathé]

1921:

Chamberland Trio

1921:

Henry Burr [with the Peerless Quartet]

1925:

Vernon Dalhart

1940:

Casa Loma Orch. [vocal: Glen Gray]

1945:

Bing Crosby

1947:

chorus [as My Book Of Memory in film Magic Town; new lyrics: Edward Heyman]

1956:

Slim Whitman

1959:

Elvis Presley

1964:

Hank Locklin

1975:

Lieutenant Pigeon

1986:

Jim McCann

Also cut by Josef Locke, Frank Patterson, Sons Of The Pioneers, The Platters, Mitch Miller and James Galway.

Contact


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)

info@originals.be

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