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Thread #13657 Message #113441
Posted By: Joe Offer
11-Sep-99 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: Fireship/One of the Roving Kind
Subject: Fireship/One of the Roving Kind
Wally Macnow brought this up in another thread, and now it's bugging me. He said somebody named Guy came out with a pop recording of The Fireship in the 40's. I wasn't around for it the first time the recording came out, but I heard it quite frequently in the 80's on a radio station that played the "Music of Your Life" format. I can hear the song in my head, but I can't remember who the singer was, or what he called the song. Can anybody help?
Now, I know the Weavers recorded a pop rendition of this song on Decca in 1950 and called it "The Roving Kind." In fact, their Decca CD says the song was written by Jessie Cavanaugh and Arnold Stanton. I admit that until I started hanging around here, I thought of the song as a minor pop hit from the 40's, but the Traditional Ballad Index says the earliest known version of this song dates back to 1612.
So, anyhow, who was the guy that recorded the song? I think you'd call him a baritone.
-Joe Offer-