[78-L] Shame and Sorrow cover versions

[Cary Ginell]

Covers : Sir Lancelot with Gerald Clark’s Calypso Serenaders (1946) [on Keynote as Scandal In The Family; again he sings "Shame and sorrow"
 instead; the film version and the record version have the same lyrics; 
reissued on Mercury in '53, triggering covers by the dozen], Odetta 
(1956) [as Shame And
 Scandal on lp Sings Ballads And Blues, as if it was an old folk song], 
Burl Ives (1956) [as The Harlem Man], Maya Angelou (1957) [as Scandal In
 The Family], Gateway Singers (1961) , Lord Melody (1962) [influential 
version as Wau Wau, where a son comes home with a girl he can't marry 
because according to his father she's his sister; for his mother 
marriage is no problem since his father happens not to be his natural 
father anyhow], Shawn Elliott (1964) [n°1 B as Shame
 And Scandal In The Family credited to obscure calypsonians Huon 
Donaldson and Slim Henry Brown], Hiltonaires (1964) , Kingston Trio 
(1964) [as Ah Woe, Ah Me], Lance Percifal (1965) [idem], Cocktail Trio 
(1965) [as Groot Schandaal In De Familie], Mounties (1965) [idem], 
Derrick Harriott (1965) , Sacha Distel (1965) [as Scandale dans la 
famille], Surfs (1965) [idem], Peter Tosh & The Wailers (1965) , Don
 Drummond & The Skatalites (1965) , Maskers (1965) [as Potverdrie, 
Groot Schandaal in onze Familie], Blues Busters (1966) , Horace Faith 
(1970) , Johnny Chester & Jigsaw (1971) [hit Australia], Clint 
Eastwood & General Saint (1982) , Freddie McGregor (1994) , 
Africando (2000) [as Scandalo], R.L. Burnside (2002) [as He Ain't Your 
Daddy; joke on live cd Burnside On Burnside, exactly the same storyline 
as Lord Melody's version], David Lindley & Wally Ingram (2003) , 
Relator (2003) , Madness (2005) [most as Shame & Scandal], …..

Cary Ginell