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American Sea Chanteys [B00809] American Sea Chanteys by Forebitter, Mystic Seaport's sea-chantey quartet Forebitter--Craig Edwards, Geoff Kaufman, David Littlefield, and Rick Spencer--here perform 24 American sea chanteys, including "Sacramento," "Round Cape Horn," Roll the Woodpile Down," "Strike the Bell," "Poor Lazarus," "A Hundred Years Ago," "New York Girls," "Stormalong John," "Drinking That Wine," "The Hog-eye Man" ( a personal aside: the original name of St. Paul MN was "Hog-eye," after the tavern owner who set up business on the Mississippi and started a settlement.), "One More Day," "Tom's Gone to Hilo," and "John Cherokee."--Mystic Seaport, , , . C, List Price $14.95, Your price $14.95, Book Number B00809.
Bob Zentz: Hove-to and Drifting [B01139] Bob Zentz: Hove-to and Drifting by Bob Zentz, Includes: Old Grey Squirrel; On Board a '98'; Good Ship 'Calibar'; Ode to the Mouthharp; Song for Gayle; Companioned by the Sea; Mr. Brown (Ol' Jim Rivuh) The "Last Skipjack"; This Ol' Bay; Whale of a Tale; Rhyme of the Nancy Bell; The Sailor's Consolation; Ocean Station Bravo; The Shellback's Song; Light from the Lighthouse; and Window on the River.--Zentz, , Songs of the Sea, River, and Bay, . C, List Price $14.98, Your price $14.98, Book Number B01139.
Bok: Return To Land [B00281] Bok: Return To Land by Gordon Bok, Contains: This Old Mandolin; Return to the Land; Get Her into Shore; These Dry Stone Walls; Fiddler of Dooney; Lament for Limerick; Bare-Legged Kate; The Wreck of the Green Cove; A Little Road and a Stone to Roll; The Arbutus; The Swag and the Shiner; Song of the Wheelhouse Door; I held a Lady; O Mar; Sally; Culebra; Pearly. (Play time 1:06:26--Folk-legacy Records, , , . C, List Price $18.00, Your price $18.00, Book Number B00281.
Bok; North Winds Clearing [B00213] Bok; North Winds Clearing by Gordon Bok, McKeon's Coming; Wester Boat; Mrs. MacDonald's Lament; Liverpool Handy; I's the By; Mr. Eneos; Saben, the Woodfitter; Cape Ann; Frankie on the Sheepscot; Mister, I Don Mind; Clear Away in the Morning; Threeboot Philbrick's Lament; Gulls in the Morning; Bay of Fundy; Old Fat Boat; Peter Kagan and the Wind. Playing time 63:05.--Folk-legacy Records, , Mckeon's Coming,liverpool Handy,cape Ann, Old Fat, . C, List Price $15.00, Your price $15.00, Book Number B00213.
Donkey Riding. [B01052] Donkey Riding. by , Mike Bosworth, a long time POB fan and scuttlebutt participant keeps himself busy. He's a naval architect who finds time to build wooden sailing ships for a preservation group, sails them, and is an active participant in a group that sings chanties to help pay for the other things. In this CD, he and the Shipscompany provide every important chanty and then some. Perfect for listening to while reading sea stories.--, 2002, , . C, List Price $15.00, Your price $15.00, Book Number B01052.
Forebitter: Unmooring [B00737] Forebitter: Unmooring by , Chanties, or shanties, are work songs; forebitters are entertainment or participating songs. Sung by the crew, with the capstan or forebitts as the stage, forebitters frequently tell us modern folk something about life aboard sailing ships from 18th century merchants, to clipper ships, to the last of the schooners. This collection includes Unmooring, Fire Maringo, Larry Marr, Lynchburg Town, Jamestown Homeward Bound, Derby Ram, Woodchopper's Hornpibe/ Maple Sugar Reel, Luce Bros., Weldon, Le Capitaine de St. Malo, Pull Down Below, Heidi Marie, Poor Little Fisherman's Girl, Whalebone Cutter, Wings of a Goney, Clear Away the Track/ The Musical Priest. Vocals, fiddle, guitar, banjo, percussion, mandolin.--Mystic Seaport, , , . C, List Price $14.95, Your price $14.95, Book Number B00737.
Heart Outbursts [B01082] Heart Outbursts by John Roberts, Tony Barrand, English folksongs collected in Lincolnshire by Percy Grainger. Ballads of love, betrayal, navy, war, and shrewd women. Sample: Brigg Fair, Turpin Hero, Lord Bateman, A Fair Maid Walking, Sprig of Thyme, Horkstow Grange, William Taylor, Lisbon, Died for Love.--Golden Hind Music, 1998, , . C, List Price $0.00, Your price $0.00, Book Number B01082.
Links of Chain [B00810] Links of Chain by Forebitter, Link of Chain represents the first of two volumes of music that help tell the tale of America and the sea. Recorded amid planning for the new exhibition, American and the Sea, at Mystic Seaport which opens in the summer of 2000, the range of music is meant to show the nation's connection to our oceans, rivers and lakes. Spans the period from Colonial Days through World War II, this volume features 18 songs.--Mystic Seaport, 2000, , . C, List Price $14.95, Your price $14.95, Book Number B00810.
Music of the Streets [B00876] Music of the Streets by , Mechanical musical instruments began appearing in mid-18th century and by mid-19th were so omnipresent that an 1864 law was required to control them. However you or Jack Aubrey may have thought of them, they provided the music in the streets to the people. Various street pianos and organs play such tunes as La Marseillaise, Rule Britannia, Bells of St. Mary, Soldiers of the Queen, Roamin' in the Gloomin', Old Rosin the Beau, Now is the Hour, Men of harlech, Pull for Shore, several unidentified tunes, and others. 55' 43".--SayDisc, , , . C, List Price $17.00, Your price $17.00, Book Number B00876.
Musical Evenings (1) With The Captain [B00258] Musical Evenings (1) With The Captain by Richard Kapp, Liner notes written by Patrick O'Brian. Performed by Philharmonia Virtuosi Mela and Alexandr Tenenbaum, violins; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Richard Kapp, fortepiano. Compositions included. Locatelli: Sonata in G Major, Op. 5, No. 1 for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo, Sonata in C Minor, Op.6, No.5 for Violin and Basso Continuo. Haydn: duet for Violin and Cello in D major. Handel: Eight pieces for Violin and Cello. Boccherini: sonata for Violin and Cello in D Major. LeClair: Sonata in D Minor for 2 Violins and Basso Continu--ESS A. Y, , Music From The Aubrey-maturin Books., . C, List Price $16.00, Your price $16.00, Book Number B00258.
Musical Evenings (2) With The Capt, Vol 2. [B00438] Musical Evenings (2) With The Capt, Vol 2. by Richard Kapp, More Music from the Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian! Mela Tenenbaum, violin; Richard Kapp, fortepiano; Dorothy Lawson, cello; John Ferrillo, oboe; Richard Brice, viola; Jerry Grossman, cello. MOZART: Oboe Quartet in F Major, K.370/368b (The Yellow Admiral); J. S. BACH: Partita No. 2 in D Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 (The Ionian Mission); HAYDN: Trio in G Major, Hob.XV:25 (The Wine Dark Sea) ; J. C. BACH: Sonata in D Major for Violin and Keyboard, Op. 16, No. 1 (The Ionian Mission).--ESS A. Y, , , . C, List Price $16.00, Your price $16.00, Book Number B00438.
Musical Evenings in the Captain's Cabin [B01254] Musical Evenings in the Captain's Cabin by Richard Kapp, POB's notes to the first CD make clear that a musical background was not uncommon for men of Aubrey's class and time. Richard Kapp writes, "After all, this was their culture, these were their instruments, this was what they listened to and what they encountered in the various civilized societies they landed in, both in the British Isle, in Europe and even in the western hemisphere, wherever Europeans had preceded them." Kapp continues, "The new cd differs from [our previous Musical Evenings CDs] in that it focuses exclusively on music for violin and cello _ the two instruments that A&M played. In the course of our earlier cds we have included music they might have heard in Port Mahon (Locatelli) or played with others aboard the ship (Mozart Oboe Quartet) along with other works that could well have been within their ken. Here we have drilled down to the repertoire for their two instruments by composers whose work might well have been known to them through the extensive London music publishing world."After all, this was their culture, these were their instruments, this was what they listened to and what they encountered in the various civilized societies they landed in, both in the British Isle, in Europe and even in the western hemisphere, wherever Europeans had preceded them. Kapp continues, "The new cd differs from [our previous Musical Evenings CDs] in that it focuses exclusively on music for violin and cello _ the two instruments that A&M played. In the course of our earlier cds we have included music they might have heard in Port Mahon (Locatelli) or played with others aboard the ship (Mozart Oboe Quartet) along with other works that could well have been within their ken. Here we have drilled down to the repertoire for their two instruments by composers whose work might well have been known to them through the extensive London music publishing world."--Essay, 2004, , . C, List Price $15.00, Your price $12.75, Book Number B01254.
Naulakha Redux: Songs of Rudyard Kipling [B01113] Naulakha Redux: Songs of Rudyard Kipling by Roberts & Barrand, Some of this songs need no more introduction than Rudyard Kipling; others, a bit more mysterious but the titles should intrigue. Ford o'Kabul River; Tommy; Sir Richards's Song; The Land; Philadelphia; Cells; Mandalay; An Astrologer's Song; The Ballad of Minepit Shaw; Song of the Men's Side; The Liner She's a Lady; Frankie's Trade; We Have Fed Our Sea; A Carol; Danny Deever; and Follow Me 'Ome. (67:53)--Golden Hind, 1997, , . C, List Price $15.95, Your price $15.95, Book Number B01113.
Present from the Gentlemen: A Pandora's Box of English Folk Song; A [B01110] Present from the Gentlemen: A Pandora's Box of English Folk Song; A by Roberts & Barrand, With voices exactly correct for the songs, Roberts and Barrand put you right into 18th or 19th Century. The selection of songs tells it all: Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy; Jackie Munro; Nine times a Night; A Smuggler's Song; The three Butchers; The Painful Plough; Dog and Gun; The Draggletail Gypsy/the Princess Royal; The Outlandish Knight; Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford; Our Hamlet; Sam Hall; The Fellow that Played the Trombone; and the Great War Trilogy--The Valley of the Shadow, The Old Barbed Wire, Long, Long Trail. 60.43 minutes.--Golden Hind, 1992, , . C, List Price $15.95, Your price $15.95, Book Number B01110.
Revels: Homeward Bound [B01072] Revels: Homeward Bound by Revels, Set Sail with Revels as we celebrate our newest CD! A new collection of sea songs, chanteys, dances, ballads and anthems, directed and produced by George Emlen. Featuring singers John Roberts & Tony Barrand, Louis Killen, David Jones, David Coffin, Alison Kelley with The Revels Chorus, The Revels Children, The Revels Band (accordion, pennywhistle, bass, guitar and banjo). Includes these songs from Spring Revels 2002: "Roll Down," "Drake's Drum," "Blood-Red Roses," "Anchor Song" and "Rolling Home."--Revels, 2002, , 5.5X5. C, List Price $14.95, Your price $14.95, Book Number B01072.
Roast Beef of Old England [B00831] Roast Beef of Old England by Jerry Bryant, Sailor songs of the 1800s with a selection of chanteys, forebitters, and traditional English songs. Of particular interest to POB's fans are Roast Beef of Old England, and Heart of Oak. The notes provide information on when and where the songs appeared in the Aubrey-Maturin Saga. I prize especially the lenght of the songs. While I can not state that each song included all known stanzas, the length exceeds most recordings. And the usual chance to learn the pronunciation of sailor terms. The CD includes 24 songs: Spanish Ladies, A Jolly Sailor's True Description of A Men-of-war (a nice first person narration in song of a new-comers experience arriving on his ship--quite new to me.), Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy, Saint Patrick's day, Warlike Seamen, The First of June, Drops of Brandy, Roast Beef of Old England, Heart of Oak, Nancy Dawson, Ben Backstay, Sailor's Hornpipe/Rickett's Hornpipe, Bay of Biscay-o, the Battle of the Nile, Nelson's Victory/Hull's Victory, the Banks of the Nile/Sailor's Cravat, A New Sea Song (Sweethearts and Wives), Pleasant and Delightful, Captain Barton's Distress on the Lichfield, Chevy Chase, The Shannon and the Chesapeake, Distressed Men-of-war (the threat of peace), Sailor's Jacket, Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate.--ESS A. Y, , Traditional Sailor Songs from Jack Aubrey's Navy, . C, List Price $16.00, Your price $16.00, Book Number B00831.
Rogue's Gallery of Songs for 12 String; A [B01136] Rogue's Gallery of Songs for 12 String; A by Gordon Bok, Includes: McKeon's Coming; I'm a Rambler, I'm a Gambler; Thumpy; Duncan and Brady; Belamena; Marina/Bimbo de Colonello; On the Wallaby; Old Fat Boat; Ramble Away; A Most Unpleasant Way, Sir; Mist Covered Mountains/Bonnie Galway; Blackbird; St. Thomas; Woodworker's Litany.--Folk Legacy, , , . C, List Price $15.95, Your price $15.95, Book Number B01136.
Scuttlebutt: Music of the Tall Ships [B01137] Scuttlebutt: Music of the Tall Ships by Scuttlebutt, Includes: Johnny/Mermaid/Barren Rocks; Paddy Lay Back; A'Rovin; Baltic Ports; Hanging Johnny/Blow theMan Down/ Blow Ye Winds; Shenandoah/Water is Wide; St. Thomas/Jamaica Farewell; Lazy Sailor; Home for Christmas; Anchored Inn; Jolly Rovin' Tar/Anchors Aweigh/Semper Paratus; Ocracoke; New York Gals/Salmon Tails; Massachusetts Bay; Drunken Sailor/Star O'Munster; Leave Her Johnny. Voices and instruments: Bob Zentz, Rick Lee, Rick Epping.--Folk Legacy, , , . C, List Price $15.00, Your price $15.00, Book Number B01137.
Sea Songs & Shanties [B00289] Sea Songs & Shanties by , Traditional English Sea Songs & Shanties from the last days of sail, 1994, CD, 66 minutes, 26 songs with full textsin the liner notes, $17.00. Actually recorded in the 1950's with Bob Roberts-- last of the sailing barge skippers, Cornish fishermen's chorus. Historic recordings. The cover is a detail of "the Ship Carthpool" but it's actually a four-masted bark. The notes distinguishes between shanties as working chants and forebitters or songs sung for the crew's own amusement. The liner notes provide information about the singers, including as a surprise, Sarah Makem, mother of The Clancy Brother's Tommy Make. An English import. Selections: Stormy Weather Boys, Rio Grande, Mister Stormalong, Warlike Seaman(The Irish Captain), The Worst Old Ship(Waiting for the Day), The Yarmouth Fishermen's Song, Maggie May, Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold, Whiskey Johnny, What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?, Can't You Dance the Polka?, The Sailor's Alphabet, Haul Away Joe, Cruising Round Yarmouth, Windy Old Weather, Farewell & Adieu(We'll Rant and We'll Roar), High Barbaree, The Liverpool Packet, Little Boy Billie, Johnny Todd, The Banks of Claudy, The Bold Princess Royal, Jack Tar On Shore, The Smuggler's Boy, The Smacksman, Hanging Johnny.--Saydisc, , Booklet contains words to shanties, . C, List Price $15.00, Your price $15.00, Book Number B00289.
Sea Shanties, Vol 2 [B00371] Sea Shanties, Vol 2 by , SEA SHANTIES, VOLUME 2, 1986, CD, 42.25 minutes, 17 songs, A French import with liner notes in English and French. Like Volume 1 the music is a bit more polished than, I suspect, was found on ships but not guilty of that lubberdly Norman Luboff Choir's slickness. Selections: The Coasts of High Barbarie, Maggie May, Blow the ManDown, All for me Grog, Davey Hornpipe, Rollin' of the Sea, Spanish Ladies, New York Girls (Can't you dance the Polka), The Bonnie Lady, Botany Bay, Mingulay Boat Song, Rights of Man, Off to California, Wind inside the Main, Shenandoah, The Mermaid, A Roving, The Catalpa.--, , , . C, List Price $14.00, Your price $14.00, Book Number B00371.
Spencer the Rover: Is alive and well... [B01112] Spencer the Rover: Is alive and well... by Roberts & Barrand, Recorded in 1971 (See the long hair on the cover picture), these traditional English Ballads and Songs evoke phrases like, "ambassadors of English folk," " roaming troubadours." But the ballad form has a special audience. Ideally they're are 103 verses to which the refrain fits perfectly everytime. Only time permits polishing until the perfect form appears. Contents: Spencer the Rover; Creeping Jane; I Wish They'd Do It Now; Rambleaway; What a Mouth; The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter; Silicosis; The Coachman; The Lincolnshire Poacher; Warlike Seaman; Dahn the Plughole; Shine Your Buttons with Brasso; Martin said to his Man; Fanny Blair; So Green the Leaves; Babylon is Fallen; and Thyme. (55)--Swallowtail Records, 2001, , . C, List Price $15.95, Your price $15.95, Book Number B01112.
Stan Hugill in Concert [B00738] Stan Hugill in Concert by Stan Hugill, The sounds on this CD are amazing. From the rasp of saw through splintered mainmast, the crack of a boom snapping under the strain, the gurgle as stoved boats sink, to the roar of a nor'easter--and they're all coming from the throat of one old man. Shanties take on authenticity when Stan Hugill sings, and people gather to listen.--Mystic Seaport, , , . C, List Price $15.95, Your price $15.95, Book Number B00738.
This Side of the Sea [B01119] This Side of the Sea by , The Woods Tea Co. ensemble bring pleasant voices and masterful harmonies to nautical and celtic songs. The voices are Bruce Morgan, Mile Lussen, Rusty Jacobs, Howard Wooden, Chip Chase, and Tom MacKenzie who among them have extraordinary complement of instruments: mariner-bodhran, dulcimer, banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, bass, pennywhistle, and bouzouki. In this CD, you'll find: Haul Away Joe, St. Patrick's Day in America, The Fireman, Unst Wedding March/Reel de Mattewa, The Bullgine, The HIgh Cost of Living, This Side of the Sea, The Morning Comes Early, Farewell, She Loves The Rain, Little Birdie, Ode to New Jersey, Bedford Harbor, Lift & Tow. --, , , . C, List Price $15.00, Your price $15.00, Book Number B01119.
Tom Lewis: Sea Dog, See Dog [B00237] Tom Lewis: Sea Dog, See Dog by Cyril Tawney Tom Lewis, Tom Lewis's voice has exactly the right combination of roughness and Royal Navy to make his songs (and he writes some)sound authentic but it's their content that convinces. Selections. The Captain's Lady, Chicken on a Raft (Cyril Tawney), A Whaler's Tale, The Big Fella, Safe Harbour, Doc "Lemon" (Narrative poem), Snap the Line Tight, Down Where The Drunkards Roll, North to Calleo, Down At the Sailors' Rest (Stan Rogers), A Seaman's Hymn, BUNTS! (How BUNTS, ship's mascot, romantic escapades risked French-English relationships and ended in Captain's Mast). 58 minutes, includes booklet with the words to every song.--Squire, , The Captain's Lady, A Whaler's Tale, Safe Harbour., . C, List Price $15.00, Your price $15.00, Book Number B00237.
Tom Lewis: Surfacing [B00242] Tom Lewis: Surfacing by Cyril Tawney Tom Lewis, CD. A Sailor Ain't a Sailor, Recall ("inspired by Stan Hugill," See book Shanties of the Seven Seas), Inside Every Sailor, Sailorman's Port in a Storm, Watches, The Hunter Home From the Hill, Landlocked Sailor, Marching Inland, Away, Bread and Butter To Me, Diesel and Shale(Cyril Tawney), Cyril Said It All Before, Sailor's Prayer. 57 minutes, includes booklet with the words to every song.--Squire, , A Sailor Ain't A Sailor, Recall,cyril Said It All, . C, List Price $15.00, Your price $15.00, Book Number B00242.
Traditional Songs of Ireland [B00877] Traditional Songs of Ireland by , Performers: Margaret Berry, McPeake family, Seamus Ennis, Hudie Devaney, Kitty Gallagher, Sarah Makem, and others. 26 Songs including The Moorlough Shore, Wild Colonial Boy, The Factory Girl, The Jug of Punch, The Blackbird/The Rights of Man, The Turfman from Ardee, The Magpie's Nest, and others.--SayDisc, , , . C, List Price $17.00, Your price $17.00, Book Number B00877.
Traditional Songs Of England [B00290] Traditional Songs Of England by , Jo Freya sings the traditional songs and her clear, pure soprano has textures that livens the uppity songs and adds poignancy to the laments. The music goes down as slick as a pizza slice but the obsessive part are the words: each ballad a little puzzle that must be teased from the text and liner notes. Many, as you would expect, tell stories familiar from our readings of POB, Forester, et al. The English tradition abounds in beautiful melodies and on this album some of the most delightful are brought together with performances by one of England's finest female exponents. Selections: All Things Are Quite Silent, As I Set off to Turkey, As Silvie Was Walking, General Wolfe, I Live Not Where I Love, A Sailor's Life, Rounding the Horn, Lord Franklin, The Unquiet Grave, The Broomfield Wager, There Was a Lady All Skin & Bone, Geordie, Maids When You're young Never Wed an Old Man, Bold William Taylor, Lovely Joan, a Blacksmith Courted Me, The Carnal & the Crane, The Green Cockade, Fourpence a Day, Streams of Lovely Nancy, Sweet England.--Saydisc, , , . C, List Price $17.00, Your price $17.00, Book Number B00290.
Voice Upon The Wave [B01118] Voice Upon The Wave by Woods Tea Co., The Woods Tea Co. ensemble bring pleasant voices and masterful harmonies to nautical and celtic songs. The voices are Bruce Morgan, Mile Lussen, Rusty Jacobs, Howard Wooden, Chip Chase, and Tom MacKenzie who among them have extraordinary complement of instruments: mariner-bodhran, dulcimer, banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, bass, pennywhistle, and bouzouki. In this CD, you'll find: Voice Upon The Wave, The Piper Remembered, Farewell to Tarwathie, North Sea Holes, Green Grow the Laurel, Boatman, Cailin Larkin's Lamentation, The Loon's Necklace, Gemma's Daughter, Farewell to Whiskey, After the Battle of Aughrim, The Road That You Chose --LighteningRidge, , , . C, List Price $15.00, Your price $15.00, Book Number B01118.
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