Origins: Shenandoah

Subject: Origins: Shenabdoah
From: vietvet'67
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 08:10 PM

I am looking for a version of Shenandoah sung by a group with the word "Cowboy" (or something to that effect) in their name...any help?

Subject: RE: Origins: Shenabdoah
From: vietvet'67
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 08:11 PM

Sorry...should be Shenandoah

Subject: RE: Origins: Shenandoah
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 09:57 PM

Shenandoah was a popular song among cowboy singers as well as everyone else.
Austin E. and Alta S. Fife, 1969, "Cowboy and Western Songs," reproduce the version by W. B. Whall, "Sea Songs and Shanties," 1910, which is the earliest version found in print.
This version is about the love of a white man for the daughter of the Indian chief Shenandoah. Whall's version is mentioned in thread 4257: Shenandoah
I believe that the Sons of the Pioneers recorded a version years ago, but not sure.

Subject: RE: Origins: Shenandoah
From: masato sakurai
Date: 10 Apr 03 - 10:05 PM

Yahoo's CD search: Search Results for "Shenandoah" found 440 products.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Origins: Shenandoah
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 11 Apr 03 - 02:21 PM

A version was written for Robert Horton of Wagon Train fame. He starred in a TV series as an amnesiac cowboy who called himself Shenanoah. I do Whall's version which is also given in my Seven Seas Shanty Book by John Samson.
bound to go,
Keith.