[78-L] Shame and Sorrow cover versions

[Cary Ginell]

Alas, I can't take credit for the listing of cover versions (which fails to mention Trini Lopez's, that DL mentioned). I pinched it off of a retired internet link - grabbing the cached version.

Cary Ginell

> From: kil at roadrunner.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 00:03:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Shame and Sorrow cover versions
> 
> Just an amazing bit of research Cary.  After reading the plot you outlined, 
> I remembered a similar song by Jimmy Driftwood.  It is basically the same 
> with the sexes switched.  I assume you can add it to you cover versions, if 
> you can be sure it wasn't the first.  Here are the lyrics, but I heard an 
> even more elaborate version by Driftwood on the radio, maybe on Prairie Home 
> Companion, not sure......
> 
> Father, oh dear father, get off of your lazy bones
> Tomorrow I will marry my lover Jimmie Jones
> Daughter, oh dear daughter, you'll have to find another
> You cannot marry Jimmie Jones for he is your half brother
> 
> Father, oh dear father, I hope that you won't care;
> Tomorrow I will marry my lover John O'Dare.
> Daughter, oh dear daughter, you'll have to find another,
> You cannot marry John O'Dare for he is your half brother.
> 
> Father, oh dear father, I hope that you won't frown,
> Tomorrow I will marry my lover Jimmie Brown.
> Daughter, oh dear daughter, you'll have to find another,
> You cannot marry Jimmie Brown for he is your half brother.
> 
> Mother, oh poor mother, my poor heart is undone,
> Every boy I love, turns out to be my father's son.
> Daughter, oh dear daughter, go on and make your vow,
> It ain't no sin, for you're no kin to your father anyhow!
> 
> RayK
> 
> 
> From: 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], …..
> 
> 
> 
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