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The actual origin of "Down by the Bay" is uncertain as it shares the melody with other songs. One of these is a Greek folk song called "Γιαλό, γιαλό" ("γιαλό" meaning "bay" or "seaside") exists with this same melody. [1] It is an Ionian Cantada, a style of folk music that originated in the late 19th century. [1]
"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was released in January 1968, shortly after Redding's death. R&B stations quickly added the song to their playlists, which had been saturated with Redding's previous hits. The song shot to #1 on the R&B charts in early 1968 and, starting in March, topped the pop charts for four weeks. [35]
The Dock of the Bay is the first of a number of posthumously released Otis Redding albums, and his seventh studio album. It contains a number of singles, B-sides , and previously released album tracks dating back to 1965, including one of his best known songs, the posthumous hit " (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay ".
Camptown ladies sing this song, Doo-dah! doo-dah! Camptown race-track five miles long, Oh, doo-dah day! I come down here with my hat caved in, Doo-dah! doo-dah! I go back home with a pocket full of tin, Oh, doo-dah day! CHORUS Gonna run all night! Gonna run all day! I'll bet my money on the bob-tail nag, Somebody bet on the bay.
The song is now usually played at Levi's Stadium when the NFL San Francisco 49ers win a home game. It is sometimes used in promos for the Golden State Warriors. The song was also played right before the start of game 4 of the 1989 World Series on ABC. Journey released a live version of the song in 1993 for the Time³ box set. This recording ...
The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last." [4]James Orchard Halliwell, in his The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842), notes that the third line read "When the wind ceases the cradle will fall" in the earlier Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784) and himself records "When the bough bends" in the second ...
This song is known alternatively as "Galway Bay", "My Own Dear Galway Bay", or "The Old Galway Bay". [citation needed] It was composed in London by Frank A. Fahy (1854–1935), [1] a native of Kinvara, Co. Galway, on the shores of Galway Bay. It was originally written to air of "Skibbereen".
Spanish bandleader Xavier Cugat recorded a version of "Mary Ann" in the late 1940s. During the 1956–57 American calypso craze, the Easy Riders, Burl Ives, and other interpreters of folk music further popularized the song, generally under the title "Marianne". [2]