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The version of the song recorded by British folk group the Longest Johns (under the name "Wellerman") features as the third track on the group's second studio album, Between Wind and Water (2018). A remix of the song was released on January 12, 2021.
The Longest Johns found a surge in fame after a sea shanty video went viral on TikTok. The trend started back in August 2019 when The Longest Johns released a YouTube video of them singing the song "Wellerman" as the first episode of their Sea of Thieves series, Open Crewsing. This video was shared around on many online platforms including ...
The Longest Johns and El Pony Pisador released a recording of "The Northwest Passage" as part of their collab album The Longest Pony in March 2023. [14] American Irish traditional band, Faoileán, released a cover of the song on their 2023 album Far Hills as a featuring with Jesse Hann [15].
Wellerman" is a ballad (often erroneously referred to as a sea shanty) that refers to the wellermen, the supply ships owned by the trading company set up by the Weller Brothers. [7] The song was originally collected around 1966 by the New Zealand-based music teacher and folk song compiler, Neil Colquhoun.
On 22 January 2021, Scottish musician Nathan Evans released his version of the sea shanty "Soon May the Wellerman Come" with his version being similar to that of British folk group The Longest Johns. [79] [80] At the same time a remix was commissioned by Evans' record company Polydor, with the remixers being 220 Kid and Billen Ted.
The "Oktoberklub", a folk-band from the GDR covered the song with unrelated lyrics under the title Da sind wir aber immer noch ("We're still here"), a pro-communist fight-song. In 2012, German band Santiano , named after Aufray's song, released another cover under the same title and with the same tune as the starting track of their first album.
The Longest Johns released a recording of the song in 2021 as the first single of their 2022 album Smoke & Oakum. Hailee Steinfeld performed on piano joined by Adrian Blake Enscoe in Dickinson season 3, episode 5. Andrea von Kampen sang song in movie “A Chance Encounter” (2022)
It has been recorded by The Spinners, The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers, The Corries, Three City Four (Martin Carthy, Leon Rosselson, Ralph Trainer and Marian McKenzie), [citation needed] Astrid Nijgh (in Dutch, as De scholen haring), [5] Schooner Fare, Patrick Clifford and Breabach, The Longest Johns .