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Origins: Shenandoah

10 Apr 03 - 08:10 PM (#930765)
Subject: Origins: Shenabdoah
From: vietvet'67

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?


10 Apr 03 - 08:11 PM (#930766)
Subject: RE: Origins: Shenabdoah
From: vietvet'67

Sorry...should be Shenandoah


10 Apr 03 - 09:57 PM (#930815)
Subject: RE: Origins: Shenandoah
From: GUEST,Q

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.


10 Apr 03 - 10:05 PM (#930818)
Subject: RE: Origins: Shenandoah
From: masato sakurai

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

~Masato


11 Apr 03 - 02:21 PM (#931278)
Subject: RE: Origins: Shenandoah
From: Keith A of Hertford

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.