The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go. Another version was released in 1954 on MGM 11977 by Sam "The Man" Taylor and His Orchestra, with Sam on tenor saxophone. The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on Jand lasted 2 weeks on the chart, peaking at #24. This version was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 1468. The song was revived by Nat King Cole in 1951. Louis Armstrong also had a hit with the song in 1936. Another early version was recorded by Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and his Orchestra on September 18, 1935. Popular versions in 1935 were by Bing Crosby, Guy Lombardo, Mantovani and Jack Jackson. The song was used in the Broadway production of Provincetown Follies which ran from November 3 until Decemat the Provincetown Playhouse.
14 Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 15 Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 13 Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight. Kennedy wrote the song while staying in Portstewart. 10 Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, 11 And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, 12 Do not go gentle into that good night. The title of the song provides the inspiration for the Red Sails Festival held annually in Portstewart, Northern Ireland. The song was inspired by the "red sails" of Kitty of Coleraine, a yacht Kennedy often saw off the northern coast of Ireland and by his adopted town Portstewart, a seaside resort in County Londonderry.
Published in 1935, its music was written by Hugh Williams (pseudonym for Wilhelm Grosz) with lyrics by prolific songwriter Jimmy Kennedy. "Red Sails in the Sunset" is a popular song.
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