I used to listen to this song in the late 1930s and through the Warin the 1940s it was always on the radio. It began with a few ukulele jangling (finger and thumb) chords, then "...Yo Ho me Lad Yo Ho, Let me sing you the song of a sailor..." and it was purely a ukulele and vocal song. I just can't find out who it was. Iactually have the record, a small 7" shellac old 78 record, but it in storage for yerars many miles away from here.

When I look it up on the internet or youtune I get Lesley Sarony crap or Jack Hylton. But not the ukulele solo and voice. It was the sort of thing that Frank Crumit would have done but he didn't the voice is lower and more ad lib and boisterous, not carefully studied like Crumit. My email is drjmmen@hotmail.com and if anyone has it the way I describe it if they could email me a strip copy I'd be grateful.