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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Frank Coombs
Author: Henry Webster/Joseph Webster
Label: Columbia
Year: 1911
Popular song during the American Civil War, making soldiers homesick on both sides of the line. Joseph Webster also composed In The Sweet By And By.
Covers:
Metropolitan Quartet [for Edison]
Charlie Williams [taking credits]
Johnny Cash [crediting Charlie Williams, so do Bobby Bare, Slim Whitman, Waylon Jennings and Tex Ritter]
Elvis Presley [as Forget Me Never on LP Elvis For Everyone; cut in '60 for film Wild In The Country]
Not to be confused with plantation song (No More The Moon Shines On) Lorena, first recorded as Way Down In Alabama (see there).
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)