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These charts ran concurrent to what was by then known as the Australian Music Report. The Australian Music Report charts ceased commercial publishing in 1999. Both the Kent Music Report / Australian Music Report chart data (1980–1989) and the ARIA chart data (starting from their commencement in mid-1983) are listed below.
The song has been recorded by many artists, notably in 1958 by the American folk musician Burl Ives, on his album Australian Folk Songs. Another version was recorded by the British folklorist A. L. Lloyd. In January 2014, Chloe and Jason Roweth sang the 1891 version of the song for an ABC TV story. [3]
Australian Folk Songs (Decca DL 8749) is a 1958 album by Burl Ives. During his visit to Australia in 1952, invited there by the Australian Broadcasting Commission , Ives met the Reverend Percy Jones, a professor of music at the University of Melbourne .
New York: Leeds Music, 1949; Burl Ives Song Book. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953; Sailing on a Very Fine Day. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1954 (Children's picture book) Burl Ives Folio of Australian Songs, collected and arranged by Percy Jones, 1954. Song in America: Our Musical Heritage, co-authored with Albert Hague. New York: Duell, Sloan and ...
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Songs of the West (Decca DL 4179, 1961) is one of the several albums from the early 1960s that signalled Burl Ives's move away from folk music into country western and pop. In Ives's discography this album is immediately preceded by The Versatile Burl Ives! and followed by It's Just My Funny Way of Laughin' , two Decca albums containing songs ...
Frank Sinatra also recorded the song on March 10, 1946, and his version was released in Great Britain but was not available in the United States until 1993. Others who have recorded the song include John Charles Thomas, Connie Francis, Gene Autry, Boxcar Willie, Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Johnnie Ray, Slim Whitman, Steve Lawrence and Tori Amos.
The album set was designed to be used in four types of academic courses: music appreciation, American history, literature, and social studies. Each song was selected and is introduced by Ives. The introductions "establish the songs in mood, time, and place" and "point up the significance of the songs and highlight their most important elements ...