Song: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Music written by:	Charles Gabriel
Lyrics written by:	Ada Habershon
Publication date:	1907
Language:	English
Comments:	Hymn. It became famous thanks to the Carter Family adaptation; for this reason many people believe that the real author was Alvin P. Carter, while others just credit it as a "traditional".

Originals

First recording:

Will the Circle Be Unbroken by Frank and James McCravy (December 1927)

Adaptation tree

Will the Circle Be Unbroken? written by Charles Gabriel, Ada Habershon (1907)
- Ingen bryder livets cirkel written by Gustav Winckler

Versions

Will the Circle Be Unbroken? written by Charles Gabriel, Ada Habershon (1907)

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Frank and James McCravy	1928
2	Will the Circle Be Unbroken?	Bud Billings - Carson Robinson	1928
3	Can the Circle Be Unbroken?	The Carter Family	July 1935
4	Will the Circle Be Unbroken (My Family Circle)	Eddy Arnold, The Tennesee Plowboy and his Guitar	October 1947
5	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Pat Boone	November 1957
6	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	George Jones	1959
7	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	The Jordanaires featuring Ray Walker	1961
8	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Chet Atkins	1962
9	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Joan Baez	May 1969
10	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	The Pentangle	1971
11	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	1972
12	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Blind Connie Williams	1974
13	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	John Lee Hooker	1974
14	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Willie Nelson	1976
15	Will the Circle Be Unbroken?	Memphis Bend	1977
16	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Johnny Cash - Jerry Lee Lewis - Carl Perkins	1982
17	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Neville Brothers	1989
18	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Johnny Cash/Roy Acuff/Rick Scaggs/Levon Helm	1989
19	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	The Dubliners with Eleanor Shanley and Rory Gallagher	1992
20	Will the Circle Be Unbroken?	The Wonder Stuff	January 1992
21	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Snuff Johnson	1994
22	Can the Circle Be Unbroken	Kristin Hersh	December 4, 1995
23	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Joel Harrison	April 2003
24	Will the Circle Be Unbroken?	Randy Travis	November 11, 2003
25	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Hayseed Dixie	2004
26	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Ralph Stanley	June 2007
27	Will the Circle Be Unbroken	Chuck Ragan	September 2009

Ingen bryder livets cirkel written by Gustav Winckler

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Ingen bryder livets cirkel	Gustav Winckler	1977
2	Ingen bryder livets cirkel	Michael Winckler	2000

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Every Kind of People by Joe Cocker was originally written by Andy Fraser and performed by Robert Palmer in 1978.