THEY GOTTA QUIT KICKIN' MY DAWG AROUN' (THE MISSOURI 'DAWG' SONG)
Artist: Byron G. Harlan
Author: Webb M. Oungst/Cy Perkins
Label: Victor
Year: 1912
Webb M. Oungst & Cy Perkins are an alias for Mrs. John Stark, wife (and tax evader) of a ragtime publisher. That same year it was used as a campaign song for Champ Clark, chairman of the House of Representatives in his failed attempt to become the Democratic presidential nominee (challenging Woodrow Wilson). That campagne song was credited to James Bland, who'd written Carry Me Back To Old Virginny and who'd died the year before.
Covers:
- 1926:
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers [with Riley Puckett as Ya Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around]
- 1953:
Russ Brown & Cadets [for Cole]
- 1961:
Erik Darling [as Every Time I Go To Town]
- 1965:
- 1965:
Sheila [n°1 Fr as Le Folklore Américain co-crediting Nick Woods-Vivian and Scott Holtzman]
- 1966:
Caravelli [idem]
- 1966:
Ria Valk [as Reng-Deng-Deng]
- 1967:
Bob Dylan [as Kickin' My Dog Around on The Complete Basement Tapes - Bootleg Series Vol. 11]
- 1967:
Trea Dobbs [as Du hast mir einen Hund geschenkt]
- 1968:
- 1970:
Harry Dean Stanton [in film Kelly's Heroes]
- 1978:
- 1992:
- 2026:
Jake Xerxes Fussell [as Every Time I Go To Town]
