The Roving Kind (song)
The Roving Kind was a popular song adapted in 1950 from a British folksong "The Pirate Ship" by Jessie Cavanaugh and Arnold Stanton. The best known version was recorded by Guy Mitchell in 1950, in which it reached #4 on Billboard in December 1950. The song also reached #6 on the Cashbox charts in December 1950.[1]
The song had first been recorded by the American folk group, The Weavers. Mitchell's jocular version followed the original sea-shanty style. Mitch Miller followed this "folk-origin" formula for most of Mitchell's subsequent hits.[2]
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