Career
During the folk and blues revival, "Cat Iron" was "discovered" and recorded in 1957 by Frederic Ramsey Junior. The recordings were released in the United States in 1958 on the Folkways label, in the United Kingdom in 1969 on the XTRA label. His song, "Jimmy Bell" has been covered by many other musicians, first by Koerner, Ray & Glover on their 1963 album, Blues, Rags and Hollers, later by Stoney & Meatloaf, The Numbers Band, Peter Language, The Sharks, Tom Doughty and Watermelon Slim.
