Whale songs CD

Subject: Whale songs CD
From: Herge
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 04:55 AM

Hi
I'm reading an old book on whaling in the southern ocean and want to know if there are any good CDs of whaling songs?

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: the one
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 05:16 AM

yes : songs of the humpback whales ,but i know what you mean lots of whaling museum's have them. pip.

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: Barry Finn
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 05:18 AM

A.L. Lloyd's "Levithan, Ballads & Songs of the Whaling Trade" by far the best on the subject. All the songs are traditional & come from the whaling industry. Aside from Lloyd there's Dave Swarbrick, Alf Edwards, Martin Carthy, Trevor Lucas & Martyn Wyndham-Reade. This was put out on Topic in 1967, & I don't know if it's on CD.

Good luck
Barry

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 08:10 AM

Paul Clayton - whaling & whaling Songs (Tradition 1997, TCD 1064)

Originally issued in 1957.

Paul Clayton discography

Paul Clayton was born in New Bedford, Mass., March 3, 1933

PAUL CLAYTON was a trained folklorist who studied at the University of Virginia, and collected southern Appalachian ballads on several field trips, including a collecting trip with Liam Clancy. He began his performing career when he was fifteen, on a series of folksong radio programs in New Bedford. He made his first record in 1954.

During the fifties and sixties, he was part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene that also included such well-known figures as Dave van Ronk, Bob Dylan, and Judy Collins. The melody to Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" was taken from a song that Clayton had collected in Appalachia, "Who'll Buy Your Chickens When I'm Gone" (which he recorded on Monument 4001). The tune was in the public domain, but many people believed at the time that Clayton should have received some kind of credit for finding it. There is a theory that Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" was written at the end of his close friendship with Clayton, but Dylan has denied this.

Paul Clayton died March 30, 1967

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 09:14 AM

In addition to the above, A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl recorded an album of whaling songs that appeared as an LP on the Washington label in the USA. There was also a Folkways LP, Whaler Out of New Bedford.

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 09:30 AM

And also from Brisbane, Australia, Harry Robinson's songs from his experience antartic whaling in the 1950's.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 09:41 AM

Leviathan is on CD. This is probably the best overall compilation of whaling ballads accompanied by good reliable liner notes. The songs are from the American sperm and right whale fishery (Pacific Ocean) and the British cold water Spitzbergen-Greenland whale fishery. The liner notes are more complete with the LP than the CD.

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 09:54 AM

Harry Robertson's Whale Chasing Men is in CD format. It is without doubt the best song and poetic chronicle of Antarctic whaling in the post World War ll era. Robertson was at Leigh Harbor South Georgia and was able to capture the methodology, technology and sheer butchery of the large rorqual whales.Wee Pot Stove and Humpback Whale are two of his compositions. AL Lloyd was also in these southern latitudes on a whaler about the same time.

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: oldhippie
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 10:42 AM

Not a complete CD, but a single song by Andy Barnes, "The Last of the Great Whales" recorded by Phyllis Morrissey on her "Woman of the Island CD.

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: Roberto
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 11:28 AM

Ewan MacColl & A.L.Lloyd, Thar She Blows! 1957.

I have the lp: if you're interested in some of the songs, I can send some files to you. R

Sperm Whale Fishery
Blood Red Roses
Farewell to Tarwathie
The Eclipse
The Cold Coast of Greenland
The Twenty-Third of March (The Whale Catchers)
The Coast of Peru
We'll Rant and We'll Roar
Reuben Ranzo
The Bonny Ship the Diamond
The Cruel Ship's Captain
Off to Sea Once More
Heave Away, My Johnny
Paddy and the Whale
Greenland Bound

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 11:46 AM

and, of course, CAMSCO carries all the in-print CDs. At discount prices.

Subject: RE: Whale songs CD
From: sciencegeek
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 12:33 PM

and if you can make it to Mystic, CT USA the second weekend of June, you will get the opportunity to see the Charles W Morgan and hear tons of shanties and sea music... live, up close and in person....

check out the Mystic Sea Music festival 2007 thread for details

and meet a fair number of mudcatters.... though you'll have to guess who is who in the mad throng of festival goers..... lol