Come On Down to My Boat

"Come On Down to My Boat" is a song written by Jerry Goldstein and Wes Farrell and performed by Every Mother's Son. It reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967^[1] and appeared on their 1967 album, Every Mother's Son; on the album it was titled "Come and Take a Ride in My Boat".^[2] This same title was used by The Rare Breed who released their version the previous year - September 1966.^[3]

The song was produced by Wes Farrell^[4] and was ranked #22 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1967.^[5]

This basic song is about liberation, involving an unnamed girl, who is a fisherman's daughter, is stranded and tied up in a boat on the dock, where a young man wants to cut that rope, telling her to come on down to his boat, where they would have fun playing and sailing away from her over protective father. Metaphorically it suggests living a much more carefree overall life than she currently leads.

Other versions[]

• The Gods, a psychedelic rock band from the United Kingdom, released their version in 1967.^[6]
• Lee Curtis and the All-Stars released it as a single in 1967 in Germany.^[7]
• The Quests, one of the most influential Singaporean bands of the time, recorded the song in 1967.^[8]
• , a psychedelic garage rock band, recorded in Mexico a Spanish-language version entitled "Vamos en mi lancha", on their 1967 album, Los Shippys (Discos Capitol de Mexico).^[9]
• The Royal Guardsmen included it on their 1968 album, Snoopy for President.^[10]
• The Stepford Husbands put out a single entitled "Come and Take a Ride in My Boat" in 1993.^[11]
• Jayne County took a turn with it on her 1995 album, Deviation.^[12]
• The Untamed Youth put it on their 2002 album, Major Chaos!^[13]

In media[]

• In the 1967 film, The Karate Killers.
• In The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode titled "The Five Daughters Affair" (Part 1), season 3, episode 28, 1967.
• On the talk radio program The War Room with Quinn and Rose.
• "Come on Down to My Boat" was the first song played on Radio Newyork International in 1987.
• featured in Monsterland (TV series) episode "Palacios TX."

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