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Article: He wrote the songs that made whole world sing; My Song Goes Round The World - Jimmy Kennedy by Leslie Mann. Published by Ellen Publications, Belfast. Price pounds 9.99.(Features)
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- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- August 17, 1998
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ALMOST everybody knows that Omagh schoolteacher-cum- composer Jimmy Kennedy wrote Red Sails In the Sunset while lazily watching a small yacht, Kitty of Coleraine, sailing westward beneath the setting sun off Portstewart, where he spent his early days. But how did he come to write, say, the Elvis Presley hit Harbour Lights?
The answer is that one night in dense fog while motoring back from Southampton he took a wrong turning near Farnham and suddenly his car's headlamps picked out an English pub sign - Harbour Lights - ...