Recording: John Henry

Performed by:	Snooks Eaglin
Recording date:	1959
First release:	On audio album New Orleans Washboard Blues (1960)
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Song info

Song:	John Henry
Written by:	traditional
Language:	English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	John Henry	Henry Thomas	1927
2	John Henry (The Steel Driving Man)	Furry Lewis	1929
3	John Henry Blues	The Two Poor Boys	1931
4	John Henry	Deford Bailey	1932
5	John Henry	Lead Belly	1943
6	John Henry	Joshua White	1944
7	John Henry	Merle Travis	1947
8	John Henry	Hank Thompson	July 1953
9	John Henry	Harry Belafonte	1954
10	John Henry (The Steel Driving Man)	Ed McCurdy	1955
11	John Henry	Washboard Band	1956
12	John Henry	"Tennessee" Ernie Ford	March 5, 1956
13	John Henry	Bob Gibson	1957
14	John Henry	Peter Seeger and His Five String Banjo	1957
15	John Henry	Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry	1958
16	John Henry	John Fahey	1959
17	John Henry	Ronnie Hawkins	1960
18	John Henry (The Steel Driving Man)	Buster Brown	1960
19	John Henry	Duane Eddy	1960
20	John Henry	Snooks Eaglin	1960
21	John Henry	Pink Anderson	1961
22	John Henry	The New Lost City Ramblers	1963
23	John Henry	John Henry Barbee	1964
24	John Henry	Shakey Horton	1964
25	John Henry	Peg Leg Howell	1964
26	John Henry	John Jackson	1965
27	John Henry	Fred McDowell	1967
28	John Henry	Michael Cooney	1968
29	John Henry	Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods	1970
30	John Henry	Pine Top Slim	1970
31	John Henry	Chicago String Band	1970
32	John Henry	Charlie McCoy	1973
33	John Henry	Henry Johnson	1973
34	John Henry	Eddie Lee Jones	1974
35	John Henry	Blind Connie Williams	1974
36	John Henry	Allison Mathis	1974
37	John Henry	Happy Traum	1975
38	John Henry	Gabriel Brown	1975
39	John Henry	Booker T. Sapps	1975
40	John Henry	Frank Hovington	1976
41	John Henry	I.D. Stamper	1977
42	John Henry	Elbert Freeman	1978
43	John Henry	Jimmie Owens	1979
44	John Henry	Reese Crenshaw	1979
45	John Henry	John Davis	1979
46	John Henry	John Lee Ziegler	1981
47	John Henry	Willie Wright	1983
48	John Henry	John Cephas & Phil Wiggins	1986
49	John Henry	Archie Edwards	1989
50	John Henry	Sampson Pittman	1992
51	John Henry	Diamond Jim Greene	1995
52	John Henry	Carl Martin	1997
53	John Henry	James "Bat" Robinson	1998
54	John Henry	Big Boy	1998
55	John Henry	Lonzie Thomas	2006
56	John Henry	Jesse Clarence Garmon	2006

Added by Daniel on 2009-04-02
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Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille by An Pierlé was originally written by Anne France Segalen, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Lanzmann and performed by Jacques Dutronc in 1968.