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Thread #135431   Message #3090730
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
07-Feb-11 - 05:53 PM
Thread Name: Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings
Subject: RE: Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings
Members of the Minster Singers:
Peter Dawson, Ernest Pike, Wilfred Virgo and Stanley Kirkby.
www.bookrags.com.

"Peter Dawson sings songs of sea and Empire," original recordings from 1925-1937 on HMV discs.
Songs include Outward Bound, The Old Superb, The Fleet's Not in port Very Long, etc. No chanties.

Shenandoah, recorded by Henry Burr and Albert Campbell, Victor 18327 in 1917.
Not done again until 1952, by Harry Belafonte, RCA Victor 47 5051, 7" 45rpm