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. Northern 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 fährt 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)