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William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III , William succeeded his elder brother George IV , becoming the last king and penultimate monarch of Britain's House of Hanover .
Other names for this song include As I Was Walking Up London Street, I Was Forced on Board to Serve My King, The Sailor Deceived, Sweet William (or Willie), and The Disappointed Sailor, and cowboy variants are called Cowboy's Girl, Following the Cow Trail and The Trail to Mexico. [1]
The first printed version of the song is in the public domain book Immortalia (1927). Later versions feature the eponymous "Barnacle Bill", a fictional character loosely based on a 19th-century San Francisco sailor and Gold Rush miner named William Bernard . [ 2 ]
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Shanadore" was later printed as part of William L. Alden's article "Sailor Songs" in the July 1882 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, [9] [10] [11] and in the 1892 book Songs that Never Die. [12] Alfred Mason Williams' 1895 Studies in Folk-song and Popular Poetry called it a "good specimen of a bowline chant". [13]
The film was released in the United States as Sailor of the King. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios near London and on location in the Mediterranean around Malta . The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky An earlier 1935 film Forever England was based on the same novel and starred John Mills under Walter Forde 's ...
Mercer's first cartoon was 1935's King of the Mardi Gras. Mercer voiced Popeye for more than 40 years, first for the Fleischers, then for Paramount 's Famous Studios cartoons (1942–1957), then for a series of television cartoons for King Features Syndicate (1961), and finally for a Saturday-morning cartoon show (1978-1983) produced by William ...
The film has a 42% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on twelve reviews. [4]Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com awarded the film one and a half stars and wrote, "Yet in spite of this curious premise, William simply devolves into a drab, moody morality tale for parents about not treating your kids like test subjects."