SANTA ANNA
Created on 25/06/2007Latest update on 15/04/2024
Artist: Jimmy Cronin & William Fender
Author: traditional
Label: L.o.C.
Year: 1928
Two seamen recorded by James Carpenter in London and Barry. Carpenter was an American professor on a mission searching for sea shanties in the harbors of England, armed with recording devises. On L.o.C. cassette Shanties & Sea Songs.
Covers:
- 1952:
- 1954:
Odetta [as Santy Anno on her debut album for Fantasy; was the name of a ship rounding Cape Horn to reach the westcoast of America during the 1848 goldrush]
- 1955:
A.H. Rasmussen [in Norway]
- 1957:
- 1958:
- 1959:
- 1960:
Highwaymen [as Santiano]
- 1960:
Robert Shaw Chorale [as Santy Anna]
- 1961:
- 1962:
Hugues Aufray [as Santiano, his first hit; translated by Jacques Plante; in France Santiags became the name of the cowboy boots Aufray was wearing (and millions after him)]
- 1963:
- 1966:
Watersons [as On The Plains Of Mexico]
- 1966:
- 1972:
- 1992:
- 2005:
Star Academy 5 [crediting Aufray & Plante]
- 2008:
Jefferson Starship [as Santy Anno]
Sea shantie named after the Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, commander in chief during the Mexican-American war (1846-1848). The Americans won, gaining Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. No matter his numerous defeats, Santa Anna remained the hero, just for resisting no matter at what cost. Like all shanties there's as many versions circulating as ships sailing. There's another theory situating the origin in Brittany (France). Sainte Anne was the patron saint of Breton fishermen.
