Starboard List Recordings

30 Jun 22 - 01:31 AM (#4145927)
Subject: Starboard List Recordings
From: Joe Offer

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

It looks like of the songs from this album are available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_muoNdvuEPHEvX-t1BOXlT3DSupeSJxvIw

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