Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?

Subject: Shantie CD recommendations? The Wickford Express
From: MoePerry
Date: 14 May 05 - 08:41 PM

Hello!

I am new at listining to Shantie music, but I like it very much.

Also I like this message board very much:

The colours are hell and the letters are clear, I can read everything.

You have done all your very best, please keep up doing your good work, we shantie music lovers really need pages like this.


I have these 4 Shanty CDs:

The Wickford Express: "Away, You Shanty"

Hanging Johnny and The Rum and Shrub Shantymen: "Only One more Day"

Chants De Marins: "Sea Shanties: from Dublin to Auckland Vol 1, 1986"

Chants De Marins: "Sea Shanties: Vol 2, with Heather Mitchell, 1985"


My favorite songs are the tunes that are on the Wickford Express: "Away, You Shanty" CD.

The magnificant timbre from the men who sings the leading vocals in these two songs from the album:

"South Australia" , "Rosabella" is wunderfull.

As I heared the songs I felt like I am in a cabin on a stormy sailor :-)

The songs from The Wickford Express will turn your car into a tall ship, and your commute into a voyage to cross the Line.

My question is:

Can you give me some recommendations from Shantie CDs that are in the same style from the songs from The Wickford Express?

Your recommendations must not only be from The Wickford Express, it can come from all other Shanty choir groups you knwo, the main thing is only that the songs should be in the similarly style from the songs that The Wickford Express sings:

With "similarly style" I mean: similarly timbres or "feelings" in the voices or similarly choir voices

At amazon.com there is another CD from The Wickford Express:

"Fair Winds: Traditional Sea Songs & Chanteys"

But unfurtunally it is very expensive.

I wish you all further good and interesting discussions and:

"Keep on rolling" :-)

Friendly Greetings from

Moe Perry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: Peace
Date: 14 May 05 - 08:54 PM

You might want to message Chanteyranger about this.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: freda underhill
Date: 14 May 05 - 09:13 PM

The Roaring Forties are Australian shanty singers (and include mudcat's own Jack Halyard)

As well, Cranedriver (Andrew McKay) has produced a CD of his original, well-crafted songs about the sea - Pennbucky to Llangenny . I love this CD and often listen to it!

There is also Whale Chasing Men
, a CD of Harry Robertson (who wrote Penguin Eggs and other Australian classic shanties) - this CD is like gold for any collector.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: freda underhill
Date: 14 May 05 - 09:25 PM

Danny Spooner can't be beat.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: Padre
Date: 14 May 05 - 11:26 PM

Shameless plug time:

The Boarding Party CDs on Folk Legacy are worth acquiring.

Padre

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 May 05 - 02:35 AM

I'd second that recommendation of the Boarding Party CD's. Somebody mentioned Chanteyranger above - here's Peter Kasin of San Francisco, and he and Richard Adrianowicz have a terrific new CD - check it out here (click). Richard's earlier solo CD is a good one, too.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: sixtieschick
Date: 15 May 05 - 02:38 AM

Ditto to highly recommending Peter Kasin's and Richard Adrianowitz's CD. It's terrific. Blue Clicky above in Joe Offer's post, or PM "radriano" or "chanteyranger."

Miriam

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 May 05 - 04:09 AM

1. Farewell To The Master, by the Keelers, a tribute to Stan Hugill.
2. See You When The Sun Goes Down, by Kimbers Men.

these are the best shanty CDs I've eveer heard.

eric

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: MoePerry
Date: 15 May 05 - 06:33 AM

Hello dear Shantie friends!

Thank you very much for all your good recommendations!

That was very kindley from you.

Now I can choose one or two CDs from your tipps and then I am in shantie heaven :-)

I wish you all a happy time and

Friendly Greetings from

Moe Perry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 15 May 05 - 06:53 AM

Dear Moe

Can I suggest that you have a look at a website for a service called The Chantey Cabin. They sell CDs for many shanty groups from the uk and abroad. Their website is at: http://www.chanteycabin.co.uk/

(I'm sorry - I don't know how to make a link, but you can cut and paste that address)

You can browse through all the CDs they have for sale and then contact them for further information - they are very helpful. Jan and Ken who run the Chantey Cabin would be pleased to point you in the direction of stuff you would probably like to hear more of, if you emailed them. If you decide you want to buy something from them, they can take all sorts of currencies.

My two favourite shanty groups are probably Stormalong John (from Liverpool) and The Portsmouth Shantymen (guess where they are from). Both UK based ut quite differing in their sounds, depending on what your preference is. Both very powerful in their singing styles - Porstmouth Shantymen are all vocal, whereas Stormalong John sometimes add in some accompaniment from a concertina or two.

Enjoy your exploration of this wonderful genre.

Blowz

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 May 05 - 06:56 AM

I am so suprised that no one has mentioned Johnny Collins. The old man of the sea himself

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: freda underhill
Date: 15 May 05 - 07:27 AM

Johnny Collins

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: Severn
Date: 15 May 05 - 09:30 AM

Sailors, Ships and Shanties (Vols. 1&2)-Lou Killen Knockout K103, K104
Songs of the Tall Ships/Cruising 'Round Yarmouth-The Starboard List
Genes GCD1025/27
Leviathan!- A.L. Lloyd Topic TSCD497 and any of the A.L.Lloyd&Ewan MacColl stuff reissued on Tradition
Irish Ballads & Songs of the Sea-Dan Milner Folk-Legacy CD-124

.....For a start. Maybe more later.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 15 May 05 - 11:15 AM

You should check the BITTER END website as well as The Chantey Cabin for all things maritime.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: radriano
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 01:37 PM

Here's an active link to the Chantey Cabin site:

The Chantey Cabin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From:
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 06:12 PM

To toot my own horn a bit. For AUTHENTIC, REAL Shanties sung by REAL Seamen, the Helen Creighton Folklore Society has a 2 disk set of Shanties and other sea songs available. Currently, the price is $25.00 Cdn, before Shipping etc.

Give me a shout if you want it. The list of songs shown at the bottom of that page are ALL of the songs available in the Public Archives. The 2 CD set contains only a portion of them.      I should put out the list of the songs which ARE available on the Cd. Watch for that.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 07:58 PM

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Could you tell us a little more about your self, what country you live in, how you got hold of a CD by Wickford Express?

My guess is if you like Wickford Express's style of singing, you would probably like CD's by William Pint and Felicia Dale: Click here!

I'm less sure of the more traditional sounding CD's that have been mentioned above, although I have many of them myself and enjoy them.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 08:12 PM

These recordings are at California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties.

1 The Shanty boy [textual transcriptions with notes]
2 A-cutting down the pine [textual and melodic transcriptions]
3 Foreman Monroe [textual and melodic transcriptions with notes]
4 The Shanty boy
5 Away, Rio
6 Sally Brown
7 Hanging Johnny
8 Poor old man
9 Whiskey Johnny
10 Roll the cotton down
11 Goodby, fare you well
12 Rolling home
13 Captain Leighton Robinson, portrait, photograph
14 Captain Leighton Robinson with part of his crew, group portrait, photograph
15 Sailor's alphabet
16 Barbara Allen
17 A - roodle - tum - toodle - tum - too

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: GUEST,AnneMC
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 03:55 PM

I enjoy the CDs of these shanty singers:

Dick Holdstock & Allan Macleod
http://www.dickholdstock.com/


The Maritime Crew
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~gilk/maritime/

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantie CD recommendations?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 12:12 AM

Moe, if you're looking for just a few for starters, I'd recommend Stan hugill, "A Salty Fore Topman." If you don't know of him, he was an authentic chanteyman aboard sailing ships in the 1920's, 30's, and became an author and collector, and in later years a sea festival and concert performer. He was the real deal. Anythjng by him is worth having, but this CD is a good starting point. The Chantey cabin carries it, and, if you're in the U.S., try Dick greenhaus at CAMSCO.

For the revivalists, the aforementioned Louis Killen, Johnny Collins, and Holdstock & Macleod are great. Can't go wrong with any of their stuff. I'd add Mystic Seaport Forebitter, "American Sea Chanteys" as a solid, chanteys on the sleeve recording. There's LOTS of great stuff out there, but I'm just listing these as a few core holdings.

Thanks Joe and sixtieschick! That's amazing company to be listed with.

Chanteyranger