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Thread #48959   Message #3200563
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
02-Aug-11 - 08:15 PM
Thread Name: South Australia:What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
Subject: RE: What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
I've edited the following excerpt of a note from Lighter on the Gordon collection, from elsewhere.

Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
From: GUEST,Lighter - PM
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 08:39 PM

In 1922-23, Robert W. Gordon recorded a number of shanties and forebitters from retired sailors in the San Francisco Bay area. His understanding was that all the singers had formed their repertoires before 1880. ...

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress transferred the wax cylinders to tape in the 1970s.


One of the recorded items is "South Australia."