Stormalong John acted as "minders" for Stan Hugill. But even they couldn't stop him climbing the rigging. Their website still has contact details for Arthur Garnett and Jack Coutts. Jack was at Clive Pownceby's funeral yesterday.

BBC Last Shantyman

See the Mainly Norfolk website for Stan's Discography and Bibliography.

Jan 14, 2004 https://eastbayexpress.com/pirate-radio-1/; Dublin-born Shay Black, 53, lives in Berkeley and runs the Sunday night Irish session at the Starry Plough. The significance of shanties to his heritage became clear to him during his twenty-year stay in Liverpool, England, usually the first, and sometimes the last stop in Irish immigration. “I realized the indigenous music was not the Beatles or skiffle,” Black says. “It was shanty singing.” A 1976 Stan Ambrose program on Radio Merseyside enchanted Black, who then came to know Stan Hugill, one of the last true links between the sailors who sang shanties aboard ships and the landlubbing folkies who prettied them up. When Stan started, “it was just hoops and hollers and yelps,” Black recalls.

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https://www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/LIF-Shanty-Singing-and-the-Irish-Atlantic-online-essay.pdf
Shanty-Singing and the Irish Atlantic; Identity and Hybridity in the Musical Imagination of Stan Hugill;
Gerry Smyth, Professor of Irish Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University