Bellamy/Kipling song about Drake

Subject: Bellamy/Kipling song about Drake
From: Menolly
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 06:09 PM

I am looking for a recording of a song by Peter Bellamy and Rudyard kipling about Francis Drake and the four seas or oceans. Does anyone know where I can find it?

Subject: RE: Bellamy/Kipling song about Drake
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 06:55 PM

Is this what you're after: Lyr Req; Kipling's Frankie's Trade ?

Mick

Subject: RE: Bellamy/Kipling song about Drake
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 07:04 PM

I believe that Kipling was long dead before Peter Bellamy began performing (or perhaps was even born) - it is sincerely doubtful they recorded together.

Subject: RE: Bellamy/Kipling song about Drake
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 07:48 PM

True, not contemporaries at all. But Bellamy was wonderful at putting many of Kipling's songs to music. And I say "songs", because that's what Kipling called them, even though there was no music specified.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Bellamy/Kipling song about Drake
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 09:38 PM

Song from the short story "Simple Simon," in the book "Rewards and Fairies," by Kipling. A link to the etext has been put in thread 11594, linked above by Mick Pearce.

Subject: RE: Bellamy/Kipling song about Drake
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 05:55 PM

So, does anyone know of a recording?

I might possibly have it on a recording, maybe by Peter Bellamy (NOT "Wake the Vaulted Echoes") or maybe John Roberts & Tony Barrand ("Naquathingie Redux"), but the recordings are hiding from me at the moment.

Mudcatter Barry Finn does a powerful version of this song.

Subject: RE: Bellamy/Kipling song about Drake
From: GUEST,Allen
Date: 16 Jun 05 - 06:03 PM

It's on Bellamy's Merlin's Isle of Grammaree, I believe.
Roberts and Barrand's record is called Naulakha Redux, Naulakha being the Hindi word for fortune (or jewel, memory's bit foggy at the mo) which is what Kipling named his home.