Sea shanties for Bango

Subject: Sea shanties for Bango
From: GUEST,Jane Selman
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 10:53 AM

Can anyone help me find a good music book(s) with sea shanties for bango?

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 11:21 AM

Jane, I think I have a collection by Burl Ives but whether the music is for banjo or not - I'll have to check. It's at home; I am at work.

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 11:23 AM

Jane, I think I have a collection by Burl Ives but whether the music is for banjo or not - I'll have to check. It's at home; I am at work.

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 11:30 AM

Is this bango, or banjo, or bongo? Just curious, because I never heard of a bango.......BTW, I know a banjo player that tunes his tenor 4 string like a guitar so he can just use guitar chords on it.

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 11:39 AM

"Bingo-Bango-Bongo, I don't want to leave the Congo
No-No-Nooooo--O--O."

Sorry......had to be sung.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Amos
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 11:48 AM

I usually do sea chanties on the catarrh rather than the bango.

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 11:57 AM

(my thought exactly, spaw)

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: GUEST,Sinsull
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 12:20 PM

I was being kind and ignoring the misspelling. Now she'll never come back. Behave yourselves.

Oh No No No NO No Bingo bango bongo I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go...

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 12:38 PM

I am sorry Jane, we're a little nuts around here......Shanties are mainly acapella, but I know that some folks use instrument accompaniment to them, but I really don't know of a formalized banjo book as such. Perhaps someone else does. I'll message a coup;e of our shanty members and see if they can check in on this thread for you.

In the meantime.............did y'all ever make up verses to that thing? Like, "My sweet Carmelito looks like Phil Esposito, NO-NO-NO---O-O."

Spaw

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 01:49 PM

The Banjo Player's Song Book by Tim Jumper has a whole section on sea shanties. They are simple clawhammer arrangements for the most part. It is a good place to start.

An the Elderly music link to the book is here:

http://www.elderly.com/books/items/01-064709.htm

JAB

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 05:20 PM

I knew someone would be around....Thanks for the start Jim. Here's a blue clicky thing for Elderly:

Click Here to go to the Elderly page listed by Jim (JAB) above.

While you're at Elderly, check out what they have in bangos!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Margo
Date: 19 Apr 00 - 05:24 PM

Oh cool, JAB!! I love sea shanteys and I'm learning clawhammer banjo! Actually, the first song that comes to mind is The Glendy Burke. It's a great banjo song about a sternwheeler.

Amos, please explain catarrh. For some reason I relate that word to something bitter... Margo

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: GUEST,Jane Selman
Date: 24 Apr 00 - 08:50 AM

Thank you! - especially Jab and Catspaw49! Just visited the webpage and ordered the banjo book. What a terrific chat room, bulletin board or whatever this is! I'm glad my misspelling provided some entertainment, too!!

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Jon W.
Date: 24 Apr 00 - 10:25 AM

Catarrh is what we call a cold (especially a chest cold), isn't it?

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Apr 00 - 12:01 PM

I suppose most of us know it, and it's sort of implicit in what's been said above, but to "make assurance double sure", not all sea songs (by far) are shantys. The real work songs, which is what shantys are, are better sung with minimal or no accompaniment.

IMNSHO, most non-shanty sea songs (which DO rate accompaniment) do better with banjo than guitar, although I use both instruments on occasion.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Margo
Date: 24 Apr 00 - 12:35 PM

Yes indeed Jon: Inflammation of mucous membranes, especially of the nose and throat. [Middle English catarre

Thanks, doesterr, for refreshing this. I forgot to put a trace on it. Margo

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 24 Apr 00 - 09:03 PM

JAne: you don't have to be crazy but it helps. Also check out Jerry Goldsmith's American Folk songs Volumes 1&2. It is arranged for guitar but It may be available for banjo. Cattarh I believe is an archaic term for the flu. I know it was used in that vein during the Civil War while Grippe was the term for a cold. OOPS, Intelectual cranial flatulence. I had them backwards, Cattarh is the cold abd the grippe is the flu. To heel with it. To paraphrase that wise man Leonard McCoy on Star Trek, I'm a writer damn it, not a doctor! DOn't run screaming into the night, Jane Pleeeeeeease! Neil

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 09:27 PM

In Miss Lucy Long the banjo was called called "bango" -- perhaps in the imagined negro speak of minstrel music of that era.

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 09:34 PM

Are we sure that the Glendy Burke was a stern-wheeler? There were side-wheelers as well during the 1850's, and I've not seen a photo or other reference as to which style of steam boat she was. Anyone know?

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Elmore
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 09:42 PM

Paddle wheeler

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Les from Hull
Date: 11 Nov 12 - 06:41 AM

Side wheeler launched in 1851, sank in 1855.

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Nov 12 - 02:48 PM

A number of shanties were adapted from the minstrel stage, where the original songs were certainly accompanied by the banjo.

Charley 5-string Noble

Subject: RE: Sea shanties for Bango
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 12 Nov 12 - 05:14 AM

Jeff Warner is a fine exponent.