The recording by Pee Wee Hunt was the Billboard number-one single for 1948, selling over three million copies. It was released as Capitol Records 15105 in May 1948. Euday Bowman, the composer, recorded and published his own recording of the song, on Bowman 11748. Donald Peers recorded the song in London on March 26, 1949. It was released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number B 9763. Its structure is: Intro A A1 Intro-2 A2 In the 1919 short "A Day's Pleasure" by Charlie Chaplin, the African American band is heard playing a version of the popular rag while on the ship.