Low Down in the Broom

Written by: [Traditional]
Publication date: 1760
Language: English
Comments: A song about a lover's meeting, in some versions involving an escape from overbearing parents. English and Scottish versions of the song both existed in the Eighteenth Century, making provenance debatable. The song appears in several broadsides, dates unknown. The publication date shown above refers to James Oswald's "Caledonian Pocket Companion". The song has also been published in several other collections, principally Scottish. An English variant was published in The Journal of the Folk Song Society, vol. I, issue 3, 1901, on which many recordings are based, and is also collected as 1644 in the Roud Folk Song Index. In 1821, the tune of Low Down in the Broom was used to accompany the words of The Red Red Rose, a traditional song collected and poeticised by Robert Burns, in Volume 2 of Robert Archibald Smith's "The Scottish Minstrel - A Selection from the Vocal Melodies of Scotland", published under the title My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose.
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Low Down in the Broom written by [Traditional] English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Low Down in the Broom	Frankie Armstrong	1972
Low Down in the Broom	Chris Foster [GB]	1979
Low Down in the Broom - The Sukebind	Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr	August 16, 1995	Medley
Nous coucherons ensemble (La feuille verte / Low Down in the Broom)	Liliana Bertolo, Evelyne Girardon, Sandra Kerr	1997
Low Down in the Broom	Coope, Boyes & Simpson	1998
Low Down in the Broom	James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players	August 10, 2009
Low Down in the Broom	Bella Hardy	August 2009
Low Down in the Broom	The Shee	October 8, 2012

Low Down in the Broom written by [Traditional] instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
i	O My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose	Max Jaffa (Max Jaffa)	1962	Unverified
i	My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Kim Robertson	2003
i	My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Donna Germano	2003
i	My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Bronn Journey	2005
i	My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Cairn String Quartet	November 29, 2012
i	My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Craig Duncan	January 22, 2013
i	My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Geoffrey Keezer	July 2013

My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Robert Black	1900	First recording on September 8, 1899 First release
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Walter Lewis	1904
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Archie Anderson	1908
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	John Turner	February 1926
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Joseph Hislop	1928
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Robert Wilson	1944
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Susan Reed	January 1947
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Kenneth McKellar - Accompaniment directed by Bob Sharples	November 28, 1955
A Red Red Rose	The Robert Shaw Chorale	1956
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Niven Miller	1957
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Jo Stafford	1957
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Allan Bruce with Johnny Gregory and His Orchestra	June 1959
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Robin Hall	1959
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Elaine & Derek	January 1963
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	The Cracker Jills	1965
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Nigel Denver	1968
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	John Boulter – Johnny Douglas and His Orchestra	1968
My Love Is Like a Wild, Wild Rose	Alex Campbell	November 1976	Live
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	The Cliff Adams Singers	1976
A Red, Red Rose	Jean Redpath	1976
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Roger Whittaker	1977
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Gordon McIntyre & Kate Delaney	1981
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	The Clydesiders	1983
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Springbok	1984
O My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	The King's Singers	1985
A Red, Red Rose	Andy M. Stewart	1989
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Rachel Ann Morgan	1990
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	John MacNally	1992
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Gary Clark	January 25, 1993
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	John McDermott	February 25, 1994
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Mae Robertson & Don Jackson	1994
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Gibb Todd	1999
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Seamus Kennedy	2000
Red Red Rose	Jim Mullen	2000	Unverified
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Andreas Scholl with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra	2001
O My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose	San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus	2001	Live
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Eddi Reader	June 11, 2003
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Donna Germano	2003
A Red, Red Rose	Camera Obscura	March 21, 2005	Unverified
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Rhys Meirion	September 2007
My Luve Is Like a Red Red Rose	Jim Malcolm	2007	Unverified
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Eva Cassidy	August 26, 2008	Released more than 10 years after its recording Live
My Luve Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Only Men Aloud	October 12, 2009
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Celtic Thunder	February 22, 2011
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Rose Laughlin	May 10, 2011
Red Rose Medley: My Love is Like a Red Red Rose / No Woman, No Cry	Wilson & Swarbrick (Dave Swarbrick)	2011	Unverified
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Lesley Garrett	April 23, 2012
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Deborah Henriksson	May 15, 2012
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Emma Anstruther	June 2012
My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose	David Hobson	November 2, 2012
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Sarah Matthews	November 2012
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	Josienne Clark & Ben Walker	July 22, 2013
Love Is Like a Red Rose	Bjøro Håland	October 2017
My Luve Is Like a Red, Red Rose	Voces8	January 18, 2019
(My Love Is Like) A Red, Red Rose	Christine Bovill	August 27, 2021

Mijn liefde is als een rode roos written by Ernst van Altena Dutch

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Mijn liefde is als een rode roos	Corry Brokken	1968	First release

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