Notes & Queries – October 2022

Queries Q: I’m producing a new CD album of my band, The Bluegrass Ramble, here in Japan. The new album will be a live 2-CD set with 36 songs and will celebrate the Bluegrass Ramble’s 200th show in October 2022. We are now in the process of designing the package. I am having trouble finding the songwriter’s names for the following song and tune: “When My Time Comes To Go” and “Listen To The Mocking Bird.” I appreciate your help! Cheers. Kazuhiro Inaba, via email. A: “When My Time Comes to Go” is credited to Molly O’Day, who recorded it for Columbia Records on June 20, 1950. It was released the following November as one side of the 78-rpm disc Co 20745. Molly passed away in 1987. In 1992, Bear Family Records issued a 2-CD set of Molly’s complete recordings for Columbia. In the accompanying booklet, Molly’s husband and musical partner, Lynn Davis, recalled simply that “That was one of Molly’s songs . . . one she played banjo on, too.” Over the years