The Roving Kind (song)
"The Roving Kind" | ||||
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Single by Guy Mitchell | ||||
A-side | "My Heart Cries for You" | |||
Released | 1950 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 3:02 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jessie Cavanaugh, Arnold Stanton | |||
Guy Mitchell singles chronology | ||||
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The Roving Kind is a 1950 popular song by Jessie Cavanaugh and Arnold Stanton, both pseudonyms used by music publisher The Richmond Organisation. It was adapted from a British folk song, "The Pirate Ship". "The Roving Kind" is about a girl who is nice but a wanderer.
The best-known version was recorded by Guy Mitchell in 1950, which reached No. 4 on Billboard in December 1950. The single also reached No. 6 on the Cashbox charts the same month.[1]
The song had first been recorded by the American folk group, The Weavers. Mitchell's jocular version followed the original sea-shanty style. Columbia's A&R director Mitch Miller followed this "folk-origin" formula for most of Mitchell's subsequent hits.[2]
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- "My Heart Cries for You"
- "The Roving Kind"
- "You're Just in Love"
- "Sparrow in the Treetop"
- "My Truly, Truly Fair"
- "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania"
- "Feet Up (Pat Him on the Po-Po)"
- "She Wears Red Feathers"
- "Look at That Girl"
- "Chicka Boom"
- "Singing the Blues"
- "Knee Deep in the Blues"
- "Rock-a-Billy"
- "Heartaches by the Number"
- "The Same Old Me"
- "Charlie's Shoes"
- "Alabam"
- "Allegheny Moon"
- "Charlie Brown"
- "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle"
- "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)"
- "Everybody Loves a Lover"
- "Everybody Loves Somebody"
- "It's Been a Long, Long Time"
- "Music! Music! Music!"
- "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time"
- "O mein Papa"
- "Pennies from Heaven"
- "Side by Side"
- "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"
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