Joe "Fingers" Carr - Down Yonder (1951)

Charted at #14 on Billboard in October 1951. 6 other versions of this song also charted in 1951! A piano version by Del Wood was the most successful charting at #4. The other versions charted at #17 (Champ Butler), #15 (Freddy Martin and his orchestra), #16 (Eddie Smith and the Chief), #22 (Lawrence Cook) and #26 (Frank Petty Trio). This song was a #1 hit for Ernest Hare and Billy Jones in 1921.

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• Fingers
• Carr
• down
• yonder

[allendale1962]

This became my theme song in 1977, when at age 15 I got a job on a riverboat playing the piano for dinner cruises. I turned 48 on October 6th, and am still performing at the piano 5 nights a week at NOSTALGIA RESTAURANT in Mt. Carmel, IL. Thanks for posting this video, and please check me out on youtube. The song was written in 1921 by L. Wolfe Gilbert,sincerely, Allen Dale.

[TheLimePopsicle]

@allendale1962 Thanks for your comments!

[CarlDuke]

Thanks for the post and the wonderful information about the other versions of this song and how they charted. Also appreciate that note about Ernest Hare and Billy Jones, who were very popular performers on radio and billed as Jones and Hare, The Happiness Boys. Elsewhere on youtube there is the Champ Butler version, misidentified as being by Norman Brooks. It is very interesting as it includes the vocal and lyrics for the song. 

[TheLimePopsicle]

@CarlDuke You're welcome and thanks for all of your great information as well!

[captainofthetitanic]

@allendale1962 ALLEN I LUV YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ur the best i heard ur music its beyind amazing

[nuts4clara]

@macdunald1 Me too! XD

[V8carfreak]

can i get the exact version of this song on itunes???

[macdunald1]

it makes me want to throw a custard pie in someones face!!!

[allendale1962]

@chkjns I am only beginning to get into Winfred and Russ at this time.

[chkjns]

@allendale1962 Thanks for the info. My channel is a music time machine with a playlist for every year since 1900> I added this to the 1921 & 1951 playlists thanks to your help. You a Winifred Atwell & Russ Conway fan?

[CarlDuke]

This song was written by L. Wolfe Gilbert, a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Among his other hits were Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (a great Al Jolson Hit), Marta (Arthur Tracy), My Mother's Eyes (Georgie Jessel), Jeannine and Green Eyes. Interestingly Wolfey (as friends called him) stole from himself in writing the lyric for this one, repeating a line he had used in Robert E. Lee almost a decade earlier when he says There's Daddy and Mammy, There's Ephram and Sammy. Great post LP.