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Thread #74245 Message #1293743
Posted By: Marc Bernier
10-Oct-04 - 09:03 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Stan Hugill's Unpublished Shanties
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stan Hugill's Unpublished Shanties
It was my understanding, that text went to Browen his widow. It was to be published to provide for her after he was gone. It has been her decision not to publish this now legendary collection. Who knows, maybe someday their sons Martin or Phillip will see fit to have it published. Anyhow the camouflage is pretty superficial. for the most part it doesn't take much imagination to figure out what the words were that he started out with. I don't recall Stan singing anything that took me by suprise very often. If your interested in bawdy chanties, there was a recording that came out at the festival in mystic last summer by a singer named Salty Dick. Some of the stuff on that recording I'd heard Stan sing. I'm sure someone here can find a copy for you. But as long as Browen is alive that book won't be published.