vrijdag 25 september 2015

(Everything's All Right) In My Father's House (1922) / There'll Be No Liars There (1927) / In My Father's House (1927) / Come And Go With Me (1929) / There'll Be Joy Joy Joy (1934) / To My Father's House (1968)


Spiritual usually known as "In My Father's House", originally created by blacks during slavery.
"My father's house" could be a synonym for Africa.


A version of "In My Father's House" is printed in Carl Sandburg's 1927 American Songbag.
 



In 1929 a slightly different version was printed in the hymnbook Songs Of Cheer For Children
 




C. & M. A. Colored Gospel Quintet seems to be the first act to record the song in 1922.
C.&M.A. stands for Christian and Missionary Alliance.

(o) C. & M. A. Colored Gospel Quintet (1922)  (as "Everything's All Right In My Father's House")
Released on the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle Record label.




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(c) Hickory Nuts (1927)  (as "There'll Be No Liars There")
Recorded September 24, 1927 in Winston-Salem, NC
Released on Okeh 45220








(c) Pace Jubilee Singers (1928)  (as "My Father's House")
Recorded February 20, 1928 in Chicago
Released on Gennett 6394 and on Superior 352 
Also released on Bell 1176 (as by the Plantation Jubilee Singers)
And on Champion 15473 (as by the Dixie Jubilee Singers)






(c) Four Wanderers (1929) (as "In My Father's House")
Recorded September 17, 1929 in New York.
Released on Victor 38545




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(c) Rev. Edward Clayborn (1929) (as "Come And Go With Me To My Father's House")
Recorded October 11, 1929
Released on Vocalion 1425




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(c) Belt Sacred Quartet (1929) (as "Come And Go With Me")
Recorded October 21, 1929 in Dallas, TX
Released on Victor 23398





(c) Bessemer Melody Boys (1930) (as "In My Father's House")
Recorded May 31, 1930 in Memphis, Tenn.
Released on Bluebird B5778



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(c) Brother Son Bonds 1934 (as "In My Father's House")
Recorded September 8, 1934 in Chicago
Released on Decca 7024





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(c) Carter Family (1934) (as "There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy")
Recorded December 11, 1934 Camden, NJ
Released on Bluebird B-5911-A




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(c) Lake Howard (1935) (as "Within My Father's House")
Recorded April 30, 1935 in New York
Released on Perfect 6-01-55





(c) Eagle Jubilee Four (1938) (as "In My Father's House")
Recorded November 4, 1938
Released on Vocalion 04613




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(c) The Golden Trumpets (1956) (as "Come And Go With Me")




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(c) The Imperial Gospel Singers (1958) (as "My Father's House")
Recorded March 18, 1958
Released on Savoy 4097



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(c) Jimmy Jones and The Sensationals (1959)  (as "Come on and Go With Me")
Recorded ca. February 1959
Released on Savoy 4116


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(c) Sleepy John Estes (1962)  (as "In My Father's House")
Recorded April 22, 1962 in Chicago, IL
Released in 1998 on Testament Records



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(c) Harry Belafonte (1963)  (as "In My Father's House")
Recorded live on August 23, 1963 at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles


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In a complete new musical arrangement by Edwin Hawkins, the song was recorded by the Northern California State Youth Choir.
The Edwin Hawkins Singers began as The Northern California State Youth Choir of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. and was founded in May 1967 by Hawkins and Betty Watson.
Members were aged 17–25. As was common in gospel circles they produced and distributed their own LP: "Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord", recorded live in 1967 at Ephesian Church of God in Christ in Berkeley, California. Originally released on the Century Records label

(c) Northern California State Youth Choir (1968) (as "To My Father's House")




Lyrics:
Come and go with me to my father’s house to my father’s house. (2x)
There’ll be no cryin’ there. There’ll be no dyin’ there.
Come and go with me to my father’s house to my father’s house.

In my father’s house. There are so many mansions there.
If they were not true you know I would have told you so.
I’m goin’ to prepare a place for you and where I go you can go there too.
Come and go with me to my father’s house to my father’s house.

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(c) The Edwin Hawkins Singers (1969) (as "To My Father's House")
The exact same recording was re-released in 1969, under the banner of The Edwin Hawkins Singers, on the a sublabel of Buddah Records: Pavilion Records.
Because the Church of God in Christ objected to Buddah retaining the Northern California State Youth Choir name, the company rechristened it "the Edwin Hawkins Singers" for its reissue of the original album.



And in 1970 it was nationally distributed by the Buddah-label.


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The German-based group Les Humphries Singers recorded an exact copy of the Edwin Hawkins-version.
In their home-country, "To My Father's House" didn't chart at all, but in 1970 it catapulted to the Nr 1 position in the Netherlands and Belgium.

(c) Les Humphries Singers (1970) (as "To My Father's House")


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(c) Etta James (1982)  (as "To My Father's House")


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Not to be confused with "In My Father's House (Are Many Mansions) written in 1951 by Aileene Hanks



And also not to be confused with another traditional called "Come And Go With Me" recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary and yet another song called "Come And Go With Me", recorded by The Spirit Of Memphis.



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donderdag 17 september 2015

He Never Said A Mumblin' Word / Crucifixion (1927) / He Just Hung His Head And Died (1927) / They Hung Him On A Cross (1945) / Look How They Done My Lord (1953)


"And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word" (also known as "They Hung Him on a Cross", truncations to as little as "Mumblin' Word" and sometimes "Crucifixion" or "Easter") is an American spiritual folk song.
The song narrates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, detailing how he was nailed to the cross, "whopped up the hill", stabbed in the side, bowed his head and died, all the while keeping a dignified silence: "He never said a mumblin' word". 
Like all traditional music, the lyrics vary from version to version but maintain the same story.



The song's author and origins are unknown. It is noted in John and Alan Lomax's American Ballads and Folk Songs, published in 1934, that the song is known throughout Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee and was titled "Never Said a Mumbalin' Word."




However, the song originates back to when the United States endorsed slavery, assuming the song pre-dates 1865. It is known to be a companion piece to, and possibly holds the same author(s) as, "Were You There", another spiritual. (SEE: http://jopiepopie.blogspot.nl/2015/07/were-you-there-when-they-crucified-my.html)


In 1926 William Arms Fisher made an arrangement for voice and piano, which was published by the Oliver Ditson Company




(o) Roland Hayes 1927 (as "Crucifixion")
Recorded May 4, 1927 (trial recording for the Victor label)




(c) Roland Hayes (1939) (as "Crucifixion")
In October 1939 Hayes re-recorded the song. This time for the Columbia label
Released in February 1940 as part of a 78-rpm album titled "A Song Recital" by Roland Hayes (Columbia album set M-393)




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In 1953 Hayes re-recorded it and published his arrangement of the song as part of the song cycle Life of Christ. Later performers also often credit this arrangement.


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A different arrangement of this spiritual was recorded in 1927 by the Norfolk Jubilee Quartette

(c) Norfolk Jubilee Quartette (as "He Just Hung His Head And Died")
Recorded October 1927
Released in 1929 on Paramount 12734



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The 1926 William Arms Fisher arrangement (SEE ABOVE) was recorded in 1931 by John Morel

(c) John Morel (1931) (as "The Crucifixion")
Released on Parlophone R 1011


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Folklorists John and Alan Lomax collected the song whilst on a visit to Camp C at Louisiana State Penetentiary in the 1933, where they also discovered blues musician, Leadbelly, who later recorded several versions of the song from 1945 onwards.


(o) prison blacksmith (1933) (as "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word")
Recorded July, 1933 in Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, La.
Matrix 116-A-2


Vocals by a prison blacksmith. (His version is also mentioned in John and Alan Lomax's American Ballads and Folk Songs, published in 1934).



The same month July 1933 the Lomaxes recorded the song in Mississippi State Penitentiary

(c) group of Negro convicts (1933) (as "And He Never Said a Mumblin' Word")
Recorded July 1933 in Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
Matrix 1856 B01



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(c) Golden Gate Quartet 1941 (as "He Never Said A Mumblin' Word")
Recorded December 3, 1941 in New York City
Released on Okeh 6529 and Columbia 30042



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(c) Leadbelly (1945)  (as "They Hung Him On A Cross")
According to Leadbelly, the song originated from "down south" and he claimed to have learned it from his mother, Sallie Brown.
At least three versions of the song are known to have been recorded by Leadbelly. His earliest version was recorded on February 15, 1945 as part of the Standard Oil Company-sponsored radio show Let it Shine on Me in San Francisco, California.
It was recorded as the final part of a medley along with two other spiritual songs, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", featuring children singing along. The song was recorded under the title "They Hung Him on a Cross".

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(c) Leadbelly (1948)  (as "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word")
His final two recordings of the song, recorded during his last recording sessions ranging from September 27, 1948 to November 5, 1948 in New York with producer Frederic Ramsey, Jr., list the song as "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word."
An accapella version of the song and a solo acoustic version of the song were recorded and were featured on Leadbelly's Last Sessions vol 1 on Folkways



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(c) The Jury (1989)  (as "They Hung Him On A Cross")
Members of American alternative rock bands Nirvana and the Screaming Trees formed a side project known as The Jury in 1989, featuring Kurt Cobain on vocals and guitar, Mark Lanegan on vocals, Krist Novoselic on bass and Mark Pickerel on drums. Over two days of recording sessions, on August 20 and 28, 1989, the band recorded four songs also performed by Leadbelly; "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?", an instrumental version of "Grey Goose", "Ain't It a Shame" and "They Hung Him on a Cross"; the latter of which featured Cobain solo.


Cobain was inspired to record the songs after receiving a copy of Leadbelly's Last Sessions' from friend Slim Moon, after which hearing it he "felt a connection to Leadbelly's almost physical expressions of longing and desire."

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An arrangement of "Crucifixion" by John Payne was published by G. Schirmer Inc.
and recorded by Marian Anderson.

Marian Anderson already recorded a version in 1938, which was not released.
Marian Anderson recorded this title again on July 1, 1941 as master CS-066353, with piano accompaniment Franz Rupp.


And again in 1951 with Franz Rupp's piano accompaninent

(c) Marian Anderson (1951)  (as "Crucifixion")
with Franz Rupp: piano
Recorded May 14, 1951



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And here's some beautiful footage of Marian and Franz Rupp at the piano




(c) Josh White (1952) (as "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word")
Recorded March 15, 1951 in London
Josh White, voc, g; Chick Laval, g; Jack Fallon, b



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(c) Vera Hall and Dock Reed (1953)  (as "Look How They Done My Lord") 
Released in 1953 on the Folkways album "Spirituals with Dock Reed and Vera Hall Ward"



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(c) Sensational Nightingales (1956) (as "See How They Done My Lord")
Recorded in 1955
Released March 1956 on Peacock 5-1761




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(c) The GoldeBriars (1964) (as "A Mumblin' Word (He Never Said)")


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(c) Roger McGuinn 1996 (as "Easter")

Byrds founder Roger McGuinn recorded two versions of the song. In 1996, he made an mp3 quality recording available for free via his Folk Den website. On the website, McGuinn uses the title "Easter" (from the opening line "On Easter morn he rose").






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maandag 7 september 2015

Green Oak Tree! Rocky'o (1922) / Green Green Rocky Road (1950) / Ackabacka (1920's) / Icka backa / Hooka Tooka / Green Rocky Road (1961) / Promenade In Green (1963) / London Town (1964)


"Green Rocky Road" is a song "written" (copyrighted) by Greenwich Village regulars Len Chandler and Robert Kaufman in 1961, but apparently has its origins in a black children’s folk song from Alabama.
In 1950 Harold Courlander, assisted by Ruby Pickens Tartt, recorded a group of children from Lilly's Chapel School in York, Alabama, singing this ring game song.

It was also contained on page 277 of Harold Courlander's songbook "Negro Folk Music U.S.A.", published in 1963 by Columbia Univ. Press,



Green, Green Rocky Road
Some Lady's green rocky road
Tell me who you love, rocky road
Tell me who you love, rocky road

Dear Miss Minnie your name's names been called
Come take a seat beside the wall
Give her a kiss & let her go
She'll never sit in that chair no more.

etc etc ...

In 1953 that version was released on the next album:


Here are the liner-notes of that album


(o) Children of Lilly's Chapel School, York, Alabama (1953) (as "Green Green Rocky Road")
Recorded 1950 in York, Alabama.

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The song was previously collected by Ruby Pickens Tartt in the 1930's




But a dance song, "Green Oak Tree! Rocky'o", published in 1922 in Thomas W. Talley's "Negro Folk Rhymes",may have been the original source of "Green Green Rocky Road"




This game song was also collected and recorded by Herbert Halpert in May 1939, sung by three children in Tupelo, Mississippi



Ruby T. Lomax collected and recorded this game song on May 15, 1939 in Merryville, Louisiana, sung by Ruthie May Farr and Wilford Jerome Fisher.





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In 1961 Dave Van Ronk was working with poet Robert "Bob" Kaufman, who sang a song to him. Dave couldn't make anything of it, but Len Chandler made an arrangement of the song.
And it was on July 29, 1961 that Dave Van Ronk was singing "Green Green Rocky Road" in Riverside Church in New York. This was broadcast on WRVR in New York ("Saturday Of Folk Music").


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Sometime later "new" lyrics were added ("Hooka Tooka Soda Cracka") which is probably an adaptation of the UK children's counting out rhyme "Icka Backa (or Acka Backa / Ikka Bokka) Soda Cracker" 

My mother, your mother live across the way.
Every night they have a fight and this is what they say:
'Icka backa soda cracker, icka backa boo.
Icka backa soda cracker, out goes you!'


Maybe the first officialy recorded version (with the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics), was by a duo consisting of Leroy Inman and Ira Rogers.

(o) Inman and Ira (1963) (as "Green Green Rocky Road")
It was released in January 1963 on the next album.


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In 1963 Karen Dalton recorded a version of "Green Rocky Road" (without the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics), which she might have heard around 1961 while she was a Greenwich Village regular.

(c) Karen Dalton (1963) (as "Green Rocky Road")
Recorded March 1963 in Pine Street, Boulder, Colorado by Joe Loop;
Karen Dalton, voc, 12-str. g; bj;  Richard Tucker, g; Joe Loop. dr;
This version was finally released in 2008 on the next album


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In 1966 Karen Dalton re-recorded "Green Rocky Road" and this time she incorporated the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics.

This version was finally released in 2012 on the next album:


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(c) Goldcoast Singers (1963)  (as "Hooka Tooka")
Goldcoast Singers = Ed Rush and George Cromarty
Released in April 1963 on the next 45:




(c) Judy Henske (1963)  (as "Hooka Tooka")
Henske's version has both the Hooka Tooka verses and the Green Rocky Road verses.
Released in April 1963 on the next album:


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(c) Willie Wright (1963) (as "Promenade in Green")
(with the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)
Recorded February 25/26, 1963 in Chicago Ill.
Released in June 1963 on the next album


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(c) Paul Clayton (1963)  (as "Green Rocky Road")
(without the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)
Recorded February 1963 in Nashville TN
Released in July 1963 on the next 45:


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(c) Dave Van Ronk (1963)  (as "Green Rocky Road")
Recorded July 11, 1963.
Released August 1963 on the album "In The Tradition" (Prestige Folklore ‎– FL 14001).
First reviewed as New Album in Billboard on page 26 of the Dec 7, 1963 issue.
This was in fact Van Ronk's first officially released version.
This version doesn't contain the Hooka Tooka verse, which Dave did incorporate in later recorded versions.

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(c) Chubby Checker (1963) (as "Hooka Tooka")
Chubby Checker was smart enough to make his "own" arrangement of the song and  achieve a Top 20 US Hit. Checker's version has only the Hooka Tooka verses.
The other side of Chubby's 45 ("Loddy Lo") was also an arrangement of a children's song, which also became a US Top 20 Hit.


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(c) Peter, Paul & Mary (1963)  (as "Rocky Road")
In 1963 Peter Yarrow and Noel (Paul) Stookey made their "own" arrangement of "Green Rocky Road" (without the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics) included it on the In The Wind album.


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(c) Casey Anderson (1963) (as "Green Rocky Road")
(with the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)
Recorded September 19, 1963
Released November 1963 on the next 45


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(c) Len Chandler (1963) (as "Green Green Rocky Road")
The "author's" version was released October 1963 on A Rootin' Tootin' Hootenanny





(c) Terry Callier (1964) (as "Promenade in Green")
(with the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)
Recorded July 29, 1964 in Chicago, Ill
But it was not released until 1968


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A version of "Green Green Rocky Road" was also published in September 1964 in "Sing Out" magazine

vol.14...#4 ... page.40

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=59549



(c) Jim Helms (1964)  (as "Hooka Tooka")
Released on the album 5-String Banjo Greats, Liberty LST 7357 

5-String Banjo Greats (1964, Vinyl) | Discogs

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(c) Chambers Brothers (1965) (as "Hooka Tooka")
(with the Green Rocky Road lyrics)
Recorded August 7, 1964 live in the Ash Grove, Los Angeles, CA

The Chambers Brothers - People Get Ready (1966, Vinyl) | Discogs

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(c) Kathy & Carol (1965) (as "Green Rocky Road")
(without the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)

http://www.discogs.com/Kathy-Carol-Kathy-Carol/release/3462773

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(c) Highwaymen (1965) (as "Green Rocky Road")
(without the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)

http://www.discogs.com/Highwaymen-Stop-Look-Listen/release/3032346

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(c) Tim Hardin (1966)  (as "Green Rocky Road")
(with the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hardin_1

http://www.discogs.com/Tim-Hardin-Tim-Hardin-1/release/4913956

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(c) Fred Neil (1966)  (as "Green Rocky Road")
(without the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)

Fred Neil (album) - Wikipedia

http://www.fredneil.com/lyrics-fred-neil/

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(c) Rick Nelson (1967) (as "Promenade In Green")
(without the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)

http://www.rickynelson.co.uk/anotherside.html

http://www.rickynelson.co.uk/promenadelyrics.html

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Arlo Guthrie reworked the "Green Rocky Road" to his "Motorcycle Song".

(c) Arlo Guthrie (1967) (as "Motorcycle Song")

http://www.discogs.com/Arlo-Guthrie-Alices-Restaurant/release/3691533

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant_(album)

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(c) Oscar Isaac (2013)  (as "Green Green Rocky Road")
(with the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)

Oscar sang this version in the movie "Inside Llewyn Davis". The soundtrack features folk music by Dave Van Ronk, the Greenwich Village folk artist whose story served as the basis for the movie.

Here's a clip from the movie:



And here's the soundtrack version by Oscar Isaac.




A 1993 live version (with the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics) by Dave Van Ronk is also included as the last song on the soundtrack of the movie.

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(c) Emmylou Harris & Kate & Anna McGarrigle (2010)
 (as "Green Green Rocky Road") (with the "Hooka Tooka" lyrics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_McGarrigle_Hour

http://www.mcgarrigles.com/music/the-mcgarrigle-hour/green-green-rocky-road

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In 1964 Michael "Mick" Taylor "wrote" a song called "London Town", which also incorporated the lyrics of the "Green Green Rocky Road" children's game song, with a different melody.
Mick Taylor's version was produced by Peter Eden, who was also the producer of Donovan.
Taylor's version was completed and finally released in June 1965 on the next 45:

(c) Mick Taylor (1964) (as "London Town")

45cat - Mick Taylor - London Town / Hoboin' - CBS - UK - 201770

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As I said above, Peter Eden was also the producer of Donovan, and in the summer of 1964 he presented the song to him. Donovan liked it and did a demo of it but it was never officially released until 1992 on the CD album "Troubadour - The Definitive Collection 1964-1976"

(c) Donovan (1964) (as "London Town")

Donovan Unofficial - Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964–1976

Donovan Unofficial - London Town

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Bryan Morrison was a friend of Peter Eden and managed The Pretty Things. He heard the song and got them to release it on their Get the Picture? album.

(c) Pretty Things (1965)  (as "London Town")

Vinyl Album - The Pretty Things - Get The Picture? - Fontana - UK

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(c) Johnny Kongos (1965)  (as "London Town")

45cat - Johnny Kongos - London Town / Everybody Knows - RCA Victor - South Africa - 41.819

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