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Thread #171432 Message #4145927
Posted By: Joe Offer
30-Jun-22 - 01:31 AM
Thread Name: Starboard List Recordings
Subject: Starboard List Recordings
I came across an album in my collection today, and I had forgotten how good it was. It's a double album from Adelphi Records, #GCD 1025/27. The CD contains 30 songs from two earlier albums, Songs of the Tall Ships and Cruising 'Round Yarmouth
Blurb from the album:
Wherever there is hard work and hard times there is song. It lightens the labor, coordinates the muscles of dozens of men and often gives working men their only opportunity to express their feelings about the hard masters they serve.
These are the songs of the sailors who served on merchants ships during the last few hundred years. They include working shanties, songs of bravery and powerfully sentimental ballads by hard men.
We sing these songs because we like them. Our style is in sympathy with the traditional origins of this music and our own considerable experience and the love of the sea. (From the liner notes.)
Starboard List members are Charles O'Hegarty, David Jones and Peter Marston. They are assisted by friends: Brian Brooks, Dan Milner, John Townley, Christine Townley, Jerry Epstein, Tom Cerone, Sylven Seid and John Kilgore.
Some of the people singing on this album have posted here.
Track Listing: 1. Early One Morning 2. 51st Highland Division's Farewell To Sicily, The 3. Bark Gay Head, The 4. Wings Of A Gull 5. Cape Cod Girls 6. Farewell To Tarwathie 7. Black Ball Line 8. Classic Yankee Clipper 9. Paddy Lay Back 10. Columbia 11. Whup Jamboree 12. Ladies Gay 13. Royal Oak, The 14. Grey Funnel Line, The 15. Leave Her Johnny Leave Her 16. Boarding House Song, The 17. Yarmouth Town 18. Bull Gine Run 19. Bully In The Alley 20. Black Nag 21. Handsome Cabin Boy 22. Greenland Whale Fisheries 23. Alabama, The 24. Let Your Back & Sides Go Bare 25. High Barbaree 26. Emma, Emma 27. Step Stately 28. Banks Of Newfoundland 29. Bold Princess Royal 30. Cruising 'Round Yarmouth