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🦋 Red Sails in the Sunset

So Wikipædia's page about Modern Times asserts that "Beyond the Horizon" is based on "Red Sails in the Sunset" by Jimmy Kennedy and Hugh Williams. I don't know the song so I looked around and found several versions of it on YouTube -- Tab Hunter, The Platters, The Beatles, Nat King Cole, Fats Domino. And more! (No idea really, but I'm assuming the Cole version is the standard.) And... huh. It's a kind of pretty song, and I guess I can see where the idea comes from that "Beyond the Horizon" takes this as its source material -- similarities in structure and topic are not hard to see. But it's not moving me to anything like the degree to which I was moved by the Dylan song. Look at this! YouTube user teclo64 created a video for "Beyond the Horizon" using Chaplin footage from The Gold Rush and Modern Times:

posted evening of Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
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apparently YouTube took down this video "due to copyright restrictions." i'm heartbroken. it was my favorite video on YouTube EVER. what was the harm?

if anyone knows if it's posted elsewhere, please let me know:
shakesugaree@gmail.com

thanks!

posted afternoon of November 13th, 2009 by ShakeSugaree

This was indeed written by Jimmy Kennedy in the seaside town of Portstewart in Northern Ireland. "Red Sails" was the name of the yacht that inspired this song. Jimmy Kennedy also wrote "South of the Border down Mexico way"

posted afternoon of February 16th, 2010 by Vic Scott

Thanks, Vic!

posted afternoon of February 16th, 2010 by Jeremy

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