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Thread #102326 Message #3107917
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
06-Mar-11 - 02:21 AM
Thread Name: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
Subject: RE: Sailors' Songs or Chanties- Songbook Index
There are a few collections/articles about chanties from the early 20th century that I'd like to review, but have not yet obtained. Would anyone like to share information about the contents of the following?:
1. 1904 Bradford, John and Arthur Fagge. _Old Sea Chanties._ London: Metzler & Co.
A small collection of just 17 pages. I believe it contains at least the following chanties, which were recorded ca. 1905 by the Minster Singers (see the thread on "Earliest Commercial Shanty Recordings"):
"Blow, My Bully Boys" "Sally Brown" "Whisky Johnny" "Shenandoah" "Rio Grande" "Blow the Man Down."
I believe this was the first collection BTW to use the somewhat awkward phrase "sea chanties."