"Captain of Your Ship" is the title of a pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

 first recorded

Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...

 by the US girl group

Girl group

A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...

 Reparata and the Delrons

Reparata and the Delrons

Reparata and the Delrons were an American girl group popular during the 1960s, best known for their recordings of "Whenever A Teenager Cries" and "Captain of Your Ship".-Girl group heyday:...

 and released as a single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 in 1968 on the Bell record label. It was written

Songwriter

A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

 by Kenny Young

Kenny Young

Kenny Young is an American songwriter who has been an active writer, artist, and producer from 1963 to the present. His most famous song was "Under the Boardwalk," co-written with Arthur Resnick and recorded by The Drifters in 1964 and by The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, and many other artists;...

 and Ben Yardley.

The song is unusual in its atmospheric use of sound effects (foghorn

Foghorn

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, ship's bell, Morse code

Morse code

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) and features psychedelic

Psychedelic

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 instrumentation and treatments including electric sitar

Electric sitar

An electric sitar is a kind of electric guitar designed to mimic the sound of the traditional Indian instrument, the sitar. Depending on the manufacturer and model, these instruments bear varying degrees of resemblance to the traditional sitar...

, backwards piano

Piano

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, filtered vocals and phasing

Phasing

In the compositional technique phasing, the same part is played on two musical instruments, in steady but not identical tempo...

. The song made #13 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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 on 12 March 1968, but only made # 127 in the United States

United States

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.

Betty Boo

Betty Boo

Alison Moira Clarkson better known as Betty Boo, is an English singer, songwriter and pop-rap artist...

 sampled

Sampling (music)

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 the song for her 1990 hit single

Hit single

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, "Doin' The Do". The song also gained new interest when it featured on a mid-1990s Müllerice television ad, with modified lyrics.

The german version called "Bleib' hier Johnny" , sung by a young girl named "Patty" (CBS 3283)

The song was also used on adverts for "mullerrice" in the uk during the 1990's