Annie Laurie - Trivia

Trivia

• Winifred Bonfils (b.1863– d. May, 1936.) Reporter, columnist writing as Winifred Black for Hearst's syndicate and as Annie Laurie for the San Francisco Examiner.
• Annie Laurie's Kirk or Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, LA, California, is a copy of Annie's village church in Glencairn, Scotland.
• Annie Laurie is sung by the father in Betty Smith's novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. He sings it after he and his family moves to his last home and sees a piano of the previous owner of the flat. His wife later names their youngest daughter Annie Laurie after the song.
• Annie Laurie is the song recorded by Doberman in the episode of The Phil Silvers Show `Doberman The Crooner`
• Annie Laurie sung by the Red Army Choir was chosen by the Irish American writer J. P. Donleavy as one of his Desert Island Discs on 4 March 2007.
• The song appears prominently as a plot point in the 1998 Takashi Miike film The Bird People in China.
• Swedish band The Radio Dept. cover the song on their 2002 EP of the same name.
• The song is played in a flute throughout the Little Lord Fauntleroy (Little Prince Cedie) TV series from Nippon Animation.
• The satirical song "Transport of Delight" by Flanders and Swann contains the couplet:

Some people like a Motorbike, some say, 'A Tram for me!'
Or for a Bonny Army Lorry they wad lay them doon and dee.

However the version on their early LP, At the Drop of a Hat, is:

Some talk of a Lagonda, some like a smart MG;
For a bonny Army lorry they'd lay them doon and dee.