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Artist: Lonnie Donegan Label:   Pye Country: UK Catalogue: 7N 15267 Date: May 1960 Format: 7" Chart Position: 5 Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community: 61 Own » Search Amazon  » Search eBay  » Buy Record

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Producer	Rating
A	Lonnie Donegan	I Wanna Go Home (The Wreck Of The John 'B')	Sandburg, Hayes, Paddy Roberts	Cromwell	8.0  Rate
B	Lonnie Donegan And His Skiffle Group	Jimmie Brown The Newsboy	Carter		10.0  Rate

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With Wally Stott's Orchestra.

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RecordDragon 12th Aug 2015		Videos posted by Getalife unavailable in the USA. Replacements: A-side video clocks in at 2:38. Is that the approximate length of this single? I've seen another video that had a version of this track clocking in at close to 4 minutes.
sunrocker 12th Aug 2015		"Jimmie Brown the newsboy" is a coverversion of an old Carter Family recording from 1929 (it's on youtube...try it out). I like the Lonnie Donegan version very much, it was also issued in Germany on the germany Metronome label in 1960.
Fokeman 11th Aug 2015		I used to sing this in school as a (more or less) "Traditional" song with the BBC programme "Singing Together".
RecordDragon 1st Jun 2014		Brian Wilson is credited as arranger on the 45, not composer 5602 Here's the Kingston Trio's version Sloop John B-Kingston Trio and the Weavers version 9-27332
dezwarteschijf 1st Jun 2014		And I always thought Brian Wilson wrote the actual song for the Beach Boys as there is no mention to other credited song writers on that Beach Boys 45. I was very suprised to hear this song in slightly different lyrics and to speak freely .. I like this one more than the one the Beach Boys made.
Klepsie 1st Jun 2014		The BB's version is supposedly directly inspired by the Kingston Trio's (not on 45cat -- album track?), which in turn I suspect came from the Weavers'. Wiki says the earliest trace of the song dates as far back as 1927 in the West Indies.
RecordDragon 1st Jun 2014		Jimmie Rodgers video posted here R-4260 Sounds like the original to the Beach Boys version.
zabadak 1st Jun 2014		It is the same as the BB track but with different lyrics. Don't know about the JR one...
RecordDragon 1st Jun 2014		Is the A-side here the same song as these: 5602 R-4260
dezwarteschijf 1st Jun 2014		Just hear it for the first time .. Beach Boy's sloop john B. ??
oldbob 28th Feb 2012		I liked both sides of this but Jimmie Brown The Newsboy gets my vote for no. 1. Perhaps it's something to do with me taking papers a few years before so I could go on a school trip to Switzerland. "I sell the morning paper sir, my name is Jimmie Brown, everybody knows that I'm the newsboy of the town" Great stuff Lonnie.
Klepsie 27th Feb 2012		Wally Stott (and orchestra) on A side only?

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