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Thread #168597   Message #4073045
Posted By: sciencegeek
24-Sep-20 - 08:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Shantymen Bold by Ron Shuttleworth
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Shantymen Bold by Ron Shuttleworth
the Shanty Book 1 & 2 covered 67 shanties... book one is available as a free PDF... the 2 books are also combined into a new paperback. Much of the text in them came from the Music & Letters article written in 1921 but expanded upon.

The book of Sea Songs was published in 1931 and I'd have to dig it out to see how many songs he covered...

Shanties were a passion of his and his family - many learned from his uncles and the seaman he came in contact with as a boy and young man... it is shame he is little remembered now.

I do believe that he had a manuscript ready of a third and more definitive book on shanties ready around 1927, but it was never published and he died in 1938. It might exist in his papers that were part of his estate but it will not be easy to track down.