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Thread #57772   Message #910682
Posted By: masato sakurai
15-Mar-03 - 11:11 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sailors' Alphabet
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sailors' Alphabet
Info from folktrax:

ALPHABET SONG, THE - "A is for....." - ROUD#159 - DUNSTAN CDFS 1932 p18 Jim Thomas, Camborne, Cornwall 1931 ("When I was young I went to school")- REEVES IP 1958 #3 p63 Sharp: "A for Apple" (w/o) - HUGILL 1961 p456 "Sailor's" (A is for the anchor")- GUNDRY CK 1966 p52 PK: Bill Barber, Cadgwith, Cornwall 1956 "Sailor's" - HUGILL 1969 p171 "Bosun's" - RUGBY SONGS 1967 p81 "A is for cuntholes" - PALMER TOTT 1974 p270 Bs (Nottingham Univ Lib 89375) titled "The People's Comic Alphabet"/ Tune used PK coll publ Gundry CK 1966 p52 mentions John Bull, Queen Victoria etc - PALMER PV 1974 p270 "People's Alphabet" broadside - PALMER RS 1977 p70 "Soldier's" - GARDHAM ERS 1982 Edward Kirk, Kilnwick, Yorkshire 1972 "Artillery" - ED&S 47:2 1985 p15 Carpenter: Wm Fender, Barry, Glamorgansh "Haul Together" ("Sailor's") - PALMER OBSS 1986 #107 p220 Johhny Doughty "Sailor's"/ #142 p281 Bob Roberts "Bargeman's" - ED&S 49:2 1987 p19 Mary Hurst: Ernest Collingwood, Bournemouth, Hampsh 1964 "Sailor's" - HOWSON SSIS 1992 pp104-5 from Harold Smy, Ipswich, Suffolk (w/o) "Bargeman's" --- CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 p210 Ben Henneberry/ Hiram O Hilshie & Charlie Hartlan "Sailor's" & "Lumbermen's" - MORRIS FSOF 1950 pp57-58 Miss Mildred Masters, Fla (w/o) "Seaman's" - LEACH Labrador 1965 1 p178-80 "Air Force & Army versions" - PEACOCK SNO 1965 1 p4 "A was an apple"/ p125 "Fisherman's"/ 3 pp885-6 Mrs Gladys Snow, Nfl 1958 "Sailor's" - WARNER TAFS 1984 p416 "A is for Adam" - IVES FSNB 1989 pp87- 90 Wilmot McDonald 1974 "Lumberman's" - ILLY ILLY ALLY-O LISTEN TO THE RADIO -- William FARQUHAR rec by James M Carpenter, Maud, Aberdeensh & William RENNIE, South Shields, Durham c1928: 142 "Sailor's" - Walter BARNES, Brixham, Devon, 1943: RPL 9593-4 (78rpm) (recited) "Fisherman's" - Stanley SLADE, rec by PK, Bristol 1950 - Stan HUGILL rec 1954: RPL 20223 - Bob ROBERTS rec by PK, Ipswich, Suffolk 1953: 047 "Bargeman's"- Stan HUGILL rec London 1954: RPL 20223 "Bosun's" - Ben BAXTER rec by Seamus Ennis, Southrepps, Norfolk 1955: RPL 22158/ 234 "Seaman's" - Clifford JENKINS (with acc) rec by PK, St Mary's, Scilly Isles 1956: 217/ 309 A-ROVING 1968 #3/ SAYDISC SDL-405 1994 - Bill BARBER (from Scilly) rec by PK, Cadgwith, Cornwall 1956 - Vic TRENWITH (bus-diver & guide), rec by PK, St Marys, Scilly 1956: 309 A-ROVING 1968 #3 - Sam LARNER rec by Philip Donellan, Winterton, Norfolk 1956 : RPL REC-111 1971/ TOPIC 12-T-244 1974/ TSCD-662 "Sailor's" - MERRYMAKERS (Antigua Steel Band with vocal), rec by PK, London 1960: 917 - Rowland KELLETT, Leeds rec by PK, London 1963: 209 & 516 "Artillery"- FAIRPORT CONVENTION: ISLAND ILPS-9176 1971 --- Mrs May Kennedy McCORD, Mo: LIB OF CONGRESS AAFS-L-12 1941 - John GALUSHA rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NY 1947: 921 "Woodman's" - Capt Leighton ROBINSON rec by Sam Eskin, Mill Valley, California, 1951; American Library of Congress AAFS-L26 "Sailor's" - Tom KINES acc Russell THOMAS: (RCA VICTOR PC/PCS-1014)/ CASS-0233 "Shantyman's"