The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #1473   Message #5054
Posted By: Bob Schwarer phidea@cris.com
10-May-97 - 04:10 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Bluenose (Michael Stanbury)
Subject: RE: The Bluenose
Mea culpa. I really messed up. The song I was referring to is "Columbia" From The Starboard List recording "Songs of the Tall Ships".

the song is credited to Fred Starner. Record is from Adelphi Records Inc.;P.O. Box 288; Silver Spring, MD. I do not know if they are still in existance.

Liner notes: The Columbia, one of Gloucester's most famous fishing schooners, was a contender in the international fisherman's races and was also the last vessel to sail salt fishing from Glouscester. On August 24th, 1927, she was lost off Sable Island in a gale, taking with her her captain Lew Wharton and 21 brave fishermen. At 2 AM on News Years day, 1928, the Canadian trawler 'Venosta" tangled her gear in the wreckage of the "Columbia" and pulled the Columbia, ghost like, to the surface-when the cables parted, she sank slowly back to her watery grave.-------......

The reference to Bluenose is in the song lyric. If you can't find a copy of the record I guess it would be legal for me to copy my extra record,and then scrap it. Still only two copies.

Bob Schwarer