So long since I managed to get into this thread - my computer keeps refusing to look at threads of this length and just hangs up - but I found a new way in! Nice to catch up.

Just to say that the first of three CDs with recordings of John Short's version of his shanties has now been released - these are, of necessity, all broken contunuity versions (as per the original intent of the thread). The full document of notes, which I've often quoted earlier in this thread, is also now available on the web at www.umbermusic.co.uk/SSSnotes.htm.

The recordings on the first CD are:
1. Sing Fare You Well - Keith Kendrick
2. The Blackball Line - Roger Watson
3. Mr. Tapscott (Yellow Meal) - Sam Lee
4. A Hundred Years On The Eastern Shore (Hundred Years Ago) - Jeff Warner
5. Fire! Fire! (Fire Down Below) - Jackie Oates
6. Hanging Johnny - Tom Brown
7. Rio Grande - Roger Watson
8. Cheerly Man - Barbara Brown
9. Poor Old Man (Shake That Girl With the Blue Dress On) - Keith Kendrick
10. The Bully Boat (Hilo, Me Ranzo Ray) - Tom Brown
11. Stormalong John (Stormy Along John) - Jim Mageean
12. Blow, Boys, Blow (Banks of Sacramento) - Tom Brown
13. Carry Him To The Burying Ground (General Taylor) - Sam Lee
14. Bulgine Run (Run, Let the Bulgine Run) - Barbara Brown
15. Shallow Brown - Jim Mageean
16. Won't You Go My Way - Jeff Warner
17. Blow Boys, Come Blow Together (Blow Me Bully Boys, Blow) - Keith Kendrick
18. Tommy's Gone Away - Jackie Oates

Copies of the CD can be had from the record company - www.wildgoose.co.uk, by PMing me, or from the singers themselves.