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Thread #126347 Message #2894786
Posted By: John Minear
26-Apr-10 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
"Shallow Brown" Part 9 A Not-Conclusion
Let's start with the Percy Grainger piece, which you can enjoy here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL5G9C59Iao
Then we have June Tabor's version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pajekD3l3to&feature=related
Here is Gibb's version of the Ellison/Sharp/Hugill (d) version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4xINqWqFQk
Now we come to the Short/Sharp version, or what I've come to think of as Gibb's "Etc" version":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0BbOxdiOWY&feature=related
And here is Gibb's version of "Hilo, Boys, Hilo". Hugill suggested that the tune for the verse part of the previous version comes from this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPN75c-PVk
Along with this, I want to put up Gibb's version of "Tom's Gone To Hilo":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPiVETIBcxA
This one might be closer to "Shallow Brown":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhPONLh5TyY&feature=related
And here's "Blow, Boys, Blow":
http://www.youtube.com/user/hultonclint#p/c/58B55DD66F22060C/114/Mv0H5yar2CA
Guess what. That song "Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye" is in print! Right there on pages 118-119 in Hugill ('61). It's grog time of day! Here's the one and only Gibb:
http://www.youtube.com/user/hultonclint#p/a/58B55DD66F22060C/50/HC5FEdl8zbs