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Thread #135431   Message #3090711
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
07-Feb-11 - 05:24 PM
Thread Name: Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings
Subject: RE: Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings
From Victor Discography:

Minster Singers (AKA Georgia Sea Singers; Georgia Glee Singers); a British group; may also have used the name Meister Singers.

Matrix 1807e, recorded 2/20/1905; Sea Chanties no. 1: Capstan Bar.
Matrix 1808e, recorded w/20/1905; Sea Chanties no. 6: Rio Grande.
Matrix 6527b, recorded 1/14/1905; Sea Chanties no. 2: Blow my bully boys.
Matrix 6530b, recorded 1/14/1905; Sea Chanties no. : Whiskey Johnny.

http://victor.library.uscb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/6859/Minster_Singers_Vocal_group

Chanty no. 7 was Blow the Man Down. date prob. 1905.

Peter Dawson (i. e. Hector Grant) made recordings with the Minster Singers, one was Christmas Eve in an Australian Miners' Camp. A copy in State Library of South Australia.
http://musicaustralia.org