The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145866 Message #3380429
Posted By: Owen Woodson
23-Jul-12 - 11:55 AM
Thread Name: Stan Hugill uncensored
Subject: RE: Stan Hugill uncensored
Please don't ask me to recall specific texts after all these years, but Stan knew a lot of bawdy versions of shanties, and he was certainly up for singing at after hours entertainments.
I recall one night in a pub called the Trawler on Liverpol Dock Road, now alas knocked down, where he sang several bawdy shanties. He then told us that he'd sent a set of bawdy texts to the Hungarian/American folklorist Gershon Legman. This would have been in the late 60s and I recall him saying he sent them anonymously, to avoid being arrested for sending obscene materials through the post.
Perhaps a search of Legman's estate might yield something.