Artist: Lew Stone & His Band
Author: Hugh Williams/Jimmy Kennedy
Label: Regal Zonophone
Year: 1935
Vocal: Joe Ferrie. Hugh Williams is an alias for Wilhelm Grosz, who wrote Isle Of Capri with Kennedy earlier on (another Lew Stone-original). Both songs were interpolated into the Broadway musical Provincetown Follies later that year, sung there by Phyllis Austin. Irish Jimmy Kennedy wrote Red Sails in Portstewart, where a fishing boat monument was erected to mark the occasion. Local fishing boat Kitty Of Coleraine, mentioned in the song, was restored and is on display.
Covers:
Joe Loss [vocal by Vera Lynn]
Little Ramblers [oldest American version]
Blue Diamonds [and German version as Ein Schiff fahrt nach Shanghai]
Beatles [Live at the Star Club, Hamburg]
Bob Dylan [melody of Beyond The Horizon]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)