Frank & Kay: "My Girl"

On the 1963 LP Look, It's Us -- which documented folk singers who performed at The Jester club in Houston -- Frank Davis and Kay Oslin recorded a haunting duet of the folk song "My Girl."

Frank's understated, weary singing effectively contrasts with Kay, whose voice just soars, beautifully.

To hear it in its entirety, CLICK HERE.

"My Girl" (not to be confused with the song of the same name by The Temptations), has a long and complicated history. Like many folk songs, it is a hybrid of more than one song, and is known by more than one title.

Folk song collector Cecil Sharp published it in 1917. 

The earliest known commercially-recorded version, under the title "In the Pines," was done by Dock Walsh in 1926. 

Bluegrass legend Bill Monroe recorded it in 1941 and again in 1952, and Lead Belly recorded it numerous times in the 1940s, under the titles "My Girl" and "Black Girl."

It has since been recorded many times, most famously by the rock band Nirvana on their MTV "Unplugged" show.