Red Sails In The Sunset

Album: Portrait Of Bing Crosby (1935)
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  • Was down where fisher folk gathered
    I wandered far from the throng
    I heard a fisher girl singin'
    And this refrain was her song

    Red sails in the sunset way out on the sea
    Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me
    He sailed at the dawning, all day I've been blue
    Red sails in the sunset, I'm trusting in you

    Swift wings you must borrow, make straight for the shore
    We marry tomorrow and he goes sailing no more
    Red sails in the sunset way out on the sea
    Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me

    Swift wings you must borrow, make straight for the shore
    We marry tomorrow and he goes sailing no more
    Red sails in the sunset way out on the sea
    Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me Writer/s: Jimmy Kennedy, Wilhelm Grosz
    Publisher: Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 4

  • Rik from MaAnyone know what version of the song inspired The Beatles cover that they often did live in the early 60s?
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NySadly, on August 29th, 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans; but thankfully Fats Domino was rescued...
    Exactly forty-two years earlier on August 29th, 1963 Mr. Domino appeared on the ABC-TV week-end afternoon* program 'American Bandstand'...
    See second post below...

    * This 'Bandstand' episode was the last week-day afternoon showing of the program; all future episodes would air just once a week, on Saturday.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 8th 1960, the Platters appeared at the Town House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
    At the time they didn't have a record on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; but a little over three weeks later on August 1st their covered version of "Red Sails in the Sunset" would enter the Top 100 at position #76, and on August 22nd it peaked at #36 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the chart for 9 weeks...
    Between 1955 and 1967 the quintet had forty Top 100 records; seven made the Top 10 with four reaching #1; "The Great Pretender" for 2 weeks in 1956, "My Prayer" for 5 weeks in 1956, "Twilight Time" for 1 week in 1958, and "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" for 3 weeks in 1959...
    Bass singer Herb Reed, the last surviving member of the group, passed away on June 4th, 2012 at the age of 83...
    May all five R.I.P.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 29th 1963, 'Fats' Domino performed "Red Sails in the Sunset" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Sixteen days later on September 14th, 1963 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #82; and on October 27th, 1963 it peaked at #35 {for 1 week} and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #24 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1952 and 1968 'Fats' had sixty-eight Top 100 records; ten made the Top 10 with "Blueberry Hill" being his biggest hit, it peaked at #2 {for 3 weeks} in 1957 and spent over a half-year on the Top 100 {27 weeks}...
    Antoine Domino Jr. will celebrate his 87th birthday come next February 26th {2015}.
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