Artist: Darby & Tarlton
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1927
Where Jimmie Tarlton served time for bootlegging. Same duo followed it up with a Birmingham Jail #2 ('29) and a New Birmingham Jail ('30). Some of the lyrics shared with Down In The Valley (both titles are lyric lines), first collected in 1909 by Harry Marvin Belden and the melody was first used in the Happy Home Waltz (1850).
Covers:
Callahan Brothers [as Birmingham Jail #3]
Ted Hawkins & Riley Puckett [as Down In The Valley]
Andrews Sisters [as Down In The Valley (Hear The Train Blow), B-side of their n°1 US Shoo Shoo Baby]
Burl Ives [as Down In The Valley]
Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax & Tom Glazer [as Down In The Valley]
Weavers [idem]
Patti Page [idem]
Slim Whitman [idem]
Eddy Arnold [idem]
Rusty Draper [idem]
Pete Seeger [idem]
Browns [as Down In The Valley]
Connie Francis [idem]
Frank Proffitt [idem]
Flatt & Scruggs [as Hear The Wind Blow]
Roy Acuff [as Birmingham Jail and as Hear The Wind Blow]
Hylo Brown [as Down In The Valley]
Roy Drusky [idem]
Big 3 [idem; with Mama Cass]
Esther & Abi Ofarim [as Drunten im Tale]
Ray Charles [as Down In The Valley]
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman [as Down In The Valley]
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)