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Thread #113844   Message #2464631
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
13-Oct-08 - 02:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes/or my cane
Early recordings of "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane."

Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, 1926
Kelly Harrell, 1926
Henry Whitter & Fiddler Joe, 1926
Ernest Stoneman, 1927
Vernon Dalhart, 1927
Carson Robison, 1930
Boswell Sisters and Dorsey Brothers, 1932

I have skipped over some, and the list of later 'covers' is long.
Walking Cane

"Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet"
(random references)
Royal Chanters, 1946, Savoy records
Rodeheaver, Homer, ed., "Rodeheaver Negro Spirituals, 1923" no. 12.
Charles Winters and Elond Autry, date?- before 1942.