The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145806   Message #3374759
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
10-Jul-12 - 11:10 PM
Thread Name: Lloyd & MacColl's Sea Song LPs
Subject: RE: Lloyd & MacColl's Sea Song LPs
6. As We Were A-Sailing (The Critics Group) (1970)

This one is easy, because all the shanties are based directly on versions in Colcord or Doerflinger. It is like they are just giving a demo of how these print forms would sound. I'm confused though why in the notes they don't say where the chanties come from; it's so by-the-book. All the singers sound a bit like MacColl, and they seem to have been instructed to lead shanties in a way where the chantyman comes in "early" (cutting short the meter) after each refrain.

Slave, Ho
Aldwyn Cooper
Straight outta Colcord.

Billy Riley
John Faulkner
From Colcord.

The Alabama
Terry Yarnell
From Colcord.

So Handy
Brian Pearson
Straight outta Doerflinger.

Bottle-O
Terry Yarnell
From Colcord + 1 added verse.

Long Time Ago
John Faulkner
From Doerflinger.

John Dameray
Brian Pearson
Straight outta Doerflinger.