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Thread #32430 Message #4054882
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
24-May-20 - 03:08 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Delia / Delia's Gone
Subject: RE: Origins: Delia / Delia's Gone
Could have sworn the Le Gallienne lyric was already in one of the other threads but no, good catch!
Snow Smith & His Bahama Minstrels - Songs of the Bahamas, 1940
Burl Ives didn't record it until 1961 but he picked it up earlier when he worked a bit (as 'Ken McGehen') with Snow Smith.
ART Records (Miami) labelmate George Symonette And His Calypso Sextette covered it two years after Blind Blake.
Belafonte recorded two songs with 'Delia' in the title.
Delia ( "Mark Twain" And Other Folk Favorites, RCA, 1954) is credited to 'Fred Brooks' (aka Fred Hellerman – Weavers) and Lester Judson. Not the same song.
Delia's Gone (Love is a Gentle Thing, RCA, 1959) is credited to Milt Okun and Bob Corman (aka Robert Romero De Cormier, Jr.)
Will Holt's 1957 cover got a lot of attention at the time as well, but for the Yanks it was mostly Belafonte.