[1] Charting versions were recorded by Jo Stafford (Weston's wife)[2] and Dolores Gray.
It was also recorded by Claude Gray (a country music singer) in 1963, and by Pete Fountain, Abdullah Ibrahim, The Orioles, and Buddy Tate.
A Yiddish parody by Mickey Katz, entitled "Herring Boats", was also recorded.
[5] In 1952, bandleader Ben Pollack filed a suit against Paul Weston, Mason Howard, and the publishers, Disney Music, alleging that the words of "Shrimp Boats" infringed his rights in relation to a non-copyrighted song, "The Cajun Song", which he claimed Weston had heard in 1945.
[6] A later case was brought against Disney Music by Harold Spina and Bob Russell, who claimed to have given the partial lyric to Fred Raphael at Disney Music.