I am putting to gether a disk of perhaps a dozen sea-faring songs -- chanties and ballads and the like -- and I would be very interested to hear if anyone out there knows of any let or hindrance on the free use and performance of the follwing songs:

Yankee Ship Come Down the River(Blow, Boys, Blow)
Henry Martin
High Barbaree
The Banks of Newfoundland
Farewell Nova Scotia
Patrick Spenser (as performed by Rick Fielding, author unknown)
Golden Vanity
The Eddystone Light
Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her
Farewell and Adieu to You, Spanish Ladies
Hullabaloo Belay
What'll We Do With the Drunken Sailor?
Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket
Oh, You New York Girls
Lovely Highland Laddy

(Titles may be impressionistic).


Because I would like to believe they were all old seagoing songs and well in the Public Domain. Or at least, to know if not.

This disk will be accompanying a book of sea-stories collected from a wide array of modern-day sailors, divers, oceanographers, and explorers who have contributed their favorite reminiscences. The book is already being published by "Home Planet Books" and can be purchased through their website or through Amazon.com. I have one of the stories in the book, and my father-in-law has one. (He was an Air-Sea Rescue pilot and a blimp commander for the USN).

If you buy a copy of the book I will be in your debt! Here are the two web pages:

The Spark in the Sea at Amazon.com

The Spark in the Sea at Home Planet Books

Thanks!

Regards,

A