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Track(s) taken from CDH55156

Smilin' through

First line:
There's a little brown road windin' over the hill
composer
Arthur Penn (1875-1941)
1918
author of text
Arthur Penn (1875-1941)

Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)
Recording details: June 1995
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 1995
Total duration: 1 minutes 51 seconds

Cover artwork: Poetry. Wiiliam Affleck (1868-1943)
 

Other recordings available for download

Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Arthur A Penn, born in London, was a direct descendant of William Penn. He wrote an account of how the inspiration to write Smilin’ through came from an advert on a train which showed a country cottage with a road winding through fields. It dates from 1918. “I wrote the song in twenty minutes”, he said, “the music first, then the words, on the back of an envelope coming in one day on a Long Island train. I had no title for it—that came with the words”.

from notes by Robert White © 1995

Other albums featuring this work

Songs my father taught me
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
CDA67290

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