A-ROVIN'
Created on 22/09/2022Latest update on 08/04/2023
Artist: John Middleton
Author: traditional
Label: James Madison Carpenter Collection (L.o.C.)
Year: 1928
That collection holds three versions of this sea shanty by Middleton. Roud #649 (also as Maid Of Amsterdam and Plymouth Town).
Covers:
- 1939:
Captain Richard Maitland [Alan Lomax recording, released in '51 on lp American Sea Song And Shanties (L.o.C.)]
- 1951:
Leonard Warren [on lp Operatic Arias And Sea Shanties (RCA Victor)]
- 1956:
Paul Clayton [as The Maid Of Amsterdam]
- 1956:
- 1957:
- 1957:
Oscar Brand [as Plymouth Town]
- 1959:
- 1963:
- 1966:
- 1973:
Tommy Makem [as Maid Of Amsterdam]
