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01 Nov 02 - 08:35 AM (#815871) Subject: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: wysiwyg The previous thread "Zither banjo on ShackletonZither banjo on Shackleton" includes a few song references, but what about songs about the expedition itself? Know of any? ~Susan |
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01 Nov 02 - 08:50 AM (#815895) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Pied Piper This little Piggy fell off. PP |
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01 Nov 02 - 08:54 AM (#815901) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Declan Susan Andy Irvine used to sing one. I've no other information on this other than I remember it contained the line "My name is Shackleton". Hopefully someone else will have more information on it. |
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01 Nov 02 - 09:12 AM (#815943) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: wysiwyg PP-- LOL! For SHAME! Declan-- thanks. ~Susan |
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01 Nov 02 - 09:23 AM (#815962) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: greg stephens "South Georgia on my Mind" is probably the classic of this genre. |
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01 Nov 02 - 09:27 AM (#815972) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: greg stephens Sorry, I forgot. There's "Marching through South Georgia" as well. |
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01 Nov 02 - 09:30 AM (#815976) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Pied Piper And don't forget "Whale meat again" |
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01 Nov 02 - 09:44 AM (#815988) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: wysiwyg Come on, guys. DOn't you find it odd that something that is curretnly so popular has no music going for it? We can cash in! ~Susan |
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01 Nov 02 - 10:09 AM (#816018) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: greg stephens Well, I've roughed out a chorus, which should be a good start: My name is Ernest Shackleton (Well,actually it's not) But if it were, I'd thank the Lord That these days I'm even more famous than Scott. I haven't quite got the scansion right on the last line, might need a bit of tweaking. |
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01 Nov 02 - 10:29 AM (#816036) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: EBarnacle1 David Kleiman wrote one a couple of years ago. It has been used in various public venues. I have called him and asked him to post it here. |
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01 Nov 02 - 11:00 AM (#816079) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: wysiwyg Thanks EB. ~Susan |
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01 Nov 02 - 01:07 PM (#816174) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: The Shambles Shackleton. Earlier thread on the subject. |
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01 Nov 02 - 01:10 PM (#816176) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: The Shambles And another promised (but yet to be produced) song. |
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03 Nov 02 - 05:41 AM (#817313) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: MartinRyan Tsk! Tsk! Shambles. I must do better.... The song I promised is called "The Boss". I've heard it once only - and forgot I'd promised it here. I'll drop an email to Frank Nugent NOW! Regards p.s. Spent much of last weekend at a Shackleton "Autumn School" in Athy, near his birthplace. Was reduced to singing "Lady Franklin's Lament" in the absence of anything more apt. |
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03 Nov 02 - 06:05 AM (#817318) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Long Firm Freddie Baby It's Cold Outside? LFF |
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03 Nov 02 - 06:31 AM (#817327) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: The Shambles A Long Firm Freddie, in the cold antartic, I think not. Thanks Martin *Smiles* |
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03 Nov 02 - 07:54 AM (#817346) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: MartinRyan One of the speakers at the weekend was a young South African guy who had spent two summers and a winter at their Antarctic base (deep under snow/ice.) One of their diversions was to hold a "streak" outside. This involved running naked some 100 meters around a building outside before plunging back down the ladeder and thawing out over a heater! He showed the course but excused himdelf for not showing the participants. "Anyway, at that temperature, there's nothing very impressive to see!", sez he! Regards |
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03 Nov 02 - 09:29 AM (#817375) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: The Shambles A friend of mine told me similar tales of his days in the British Antarctic Survey. They held regular 'fancy dress' parties. One chap arrrived stark bollicky duff, but covered from head to foot with red paint. He claimed he was going as a 'redskin'. I think that they were driven more than a little 'potty'. One chap would drive them mad by constantly scuffing the ground, whilst he shuffled around the base in a pair of loose fitting and ancient carpet slippers. They settled this one morning, by using six inch nails to nail the offending slippers to the floor. |
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03 Nov 02 - 09:45 AM (#817382) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: wysiwyg These are great, stories and all. I'll use them in a set if that's OK with you guys... ~Susan |
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19 Nov 02 - 05:42 AM (#829641) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: MartinRyan I've emailed Frank Nugent re the SHackleton song. No reply as yet - wonder where he is? Given that he tried the Elephant Island/South Georgia voyage and succeeded on a North West Passage - he's probably half way up the Amazon at the moment! Regards |
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19 Nov 02 - 03:25 PM (#830125) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: EBarnacle1 David seems to still be out of town, with his phone disconnected. Will keep trying. |
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19 Nov 02 - 03:50 PM (#830134) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: RolyH From the book "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing. '...Then,to give vent to his rage,Marston(the official artist)began to sing.He sang one song,then waited,and then another.Finally he repeated over and over in a tired thin voice, a song whose chorus went: 'Twankedillo,Twankedillo, And a roaring pair of bagpipies Made from the green willow.' Anyone know it.It was sung on the Endurance. |
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19 Nov 02 - 04:04 PM (#830142) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: greg stephens The Copper Family will provide an excellent version |
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19 Nov 02 - 04:12 PM (#830147) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: RolyH Arrrgh!! I knew it was familiar,just couldn't place it.Its sitting in a book right in front of me. Thanks |
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20 Nov 02 - 04:42 AM (#830482) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Ian Roly H I recall parts of this song But It was not one I recall learning Twankydillo and lines are ch s Heres a health to the merry blacksmith who swings his bright hammer and works at the anvil while the boy pumps the bellows CH If ever I meet up with the old farmers horse Ill cut of his tail clean up to his har ness Ch If ever I meet with the old shepherds daughter Ill block up the hole from where she leaks water Heres a health to the piper the best of all fellows Who plays the jolly bagpies Cut from the green willow I hope there is a clue in it for others. |
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20 Nov 02 - 12:15 PM (#830799) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Ian Further thoughts or corrections. first verse (verse is two lines. Heres a health to the merry blacksmith the best of all fellows who works at the forge while the boy pumps the bellows Full Ch goes:- Which makes my bright hammer to rise and to fall heres to old Coal and young Coal and old Coal (and)or(of) all Twanky dillo twanky dillo twanky dillo dillo dillo and he played on his merry bagpipes made from the green willo |
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11 Dec 02 - 12:28 PM (#845246) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: MartinRyan Talked to Frank Nugent recently (see above). He's getting the words of the Shackleton song together for me. Regards |
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11 Dec 02 - 02:30 PM (#845369) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: diesel Susan I don't have the book to hand - it's out on loan and not due back for quite a while..... However the book is 'Antarctic Hero' by Author Michael Smith, and all about a Tom Crean from Kerry who accompanied both Shackleton and Scott and arguably the linch-pin of the expeditions. In the book it mentions Tom as constantly singing and humming and sometimes to the annoyance of others (folk music - really ??) Perhaps if you can locate the book or Author - there will be some more solide info. rgds Diesel (Ex-F.I.D) |
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11 Dec 02 - 02:53 PM (#845397) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: wysiwyg Thanks, more is always welcome. ~Susan |
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11 Dec 02 - 08:55 PM (#845653) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: diesel Correction Susan - sorry about this earlier, Title of book is Tom Crean: Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions by Michael Smith rgds Diesel |
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17 Aug 03 - 03:34 PM (#1003672) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: MartinRyan Heard a new song earlier this summer (by Gary McMahon, son of "The Master") called Tom Crean of Annascaul . Sounded good - I'l post the words if I can ger them. Regards |
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17 Aug 03 - 10:46 PM (#1003822) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,misophist Nobody seems to have remembered Symphonia Antarctica by Rafe Vaughn Williams. That's the only one I know of. |
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02 Sep 03 - 06:48 AM (#1011098) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: MartinRyan I've posted Gary McMahon's song on Tom Crean HERE Regards |
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02 Sep 03 - 11:10 AM (#1011251) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: wysiwyg Thanks! ~S~ |
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02 Sep 03 - 01:35 PM (#1011345) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,Melani I think the guys on the expedition actually wrote a book of songs, and we have a bootleg copy here in the library, donated by a well-meaning soul who didn't realize he couldn't just xerox something that was copyrighted and donate it. It's around somewhere; I will try to remember to ask the reference librarian when he gets in. |
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02 Sep 03 - 02:54 PM (#1011424) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: wysiwyg Oooh!!!!! ~S~ |
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03 Sep 03 - 07:20 AM (#1011911) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Schantieman Now that sounds interesting! They held regular concerts & sing-songs on board the Endurance and presumably sang elsewhen to keep their spirits up. Someone had a banjo I think....which may have had the opposite effect? (I wonder if they tried penguin skin?) |
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04 Sep 03 - 05:12 AM (#1012538) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,Martin Ryan I think the programmes from some of their "entertainments" survive, at least. And wasn't here a "South Polar Times" newsheet? Regards |
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04 Sep 03 - 05:27 AM (#1012546) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Dave Bryant There's always Les Barker's "Have you got any news of the iceberg ?" - OK I know it was in the wrong hemisphere. |
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04 Sep 03 - 07:50 AM (#1012583) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,Lighter In the Branagh movie the crew sings the shanty "Whisky Johnny." |
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04 Sep 03 - 06:53 PM (#1012939) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Reiver 2 This has been an interesting thread for one who has been thrilled and impressed with the whole Shackelton story. Special thanks to Martin Ryan for the song about Tom Crean and the link with the biographical information about him. Tom Crean was indeed an unsung hero. I'd forgotten about the dramatic role he played on the Scott expedition, but got out my copy of that book and looked up all the Crean references. When I was in Ireland in 2001 I got to Tralee, but passed up the Dingle peninsula to do the Ring of Kerry. Next time I go I'll make a special point of visiting Annascaul and stopping at the South Pole for a Guiness and a toast to Tom Crean. Reiver 2 |
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10 Sep 03 - 08:56 PM (#1016606) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,Himself Someone was singing a song recently with the chorus of which this is a part.....spelling approximate Illy allly Illy ally oh' Cheerily ,boys ,cheerily .. ....with a long pull and a strong pull etc Belay ,boys ,belay" That may be enough for some to recognise it. Anyway,the person told me it was written in honour of Shackleton. Anyone know.?? BTW...I've read a number of Shackleton books and in one it mentions in passing that he took a Wheatstone concertina to Antarctica.No mention of what type or even that he played one....only that he TOOK one. Robin |
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11 Sep 03 - 08:36 PM (#1017264) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Reiver 2 Martin, do you know if Tom Crean's two daughters are still living... and still in Tralee? Reiver 2 |
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12 Sep 03 - 09:57 AM (#1017585) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,Martin Ryan I THINK they're both still to the good - I may be able to check this evening. Regards |
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12 Sep 03 - 10:00 AM (#1017587) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST There's a nice biography of Crean with a picture of the daughters HERE . Not sure how current it is, of course. Regards |
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08 Sep 10 - 01:32 PM (#2982463) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,mg Is guest Melani still here...? She mentioned a book of songs that Shackelton's crew had written and a bootleg copy was in her library..could someone follow up on this? mg |
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08 Sep 10 - 02:55 PM (#2982539) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Joe Offer I e-mailed Melani, and we'll see if she responds. She last posted in February. -Joe- |
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08 Sep 10 - 03:17 PM (#2982558) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Jack Campin I think one of the most-heard songs on that ship went something like "Meow". Mrs Chippy |
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08 Sep 10 - 03:29 PM (#2982568) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Melani Hi guys--yes, I'm still alive, just involved up to my eyebrows in re-fighting the Battle of the Little Bighorn online...I'm at home now, not at work, so I will forward Joe's email to work, where I will be again on Friday, and track down the book. It might take a while--the guy who knows the most about it is going into the hospital for hip replacement surgery, and won't be available for a few days, in case I can't find it easily in the Library collection. The place is in chaos at the moment, with the old boss retiring and the new one driving us all nuts, and I am reluctant to bring a bootleg copy to her attention, since she might want to get rid of it. So I'll just nose around quietly. |
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08 Sep 10 - 03:32 PM (#2982571) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Melani Oh, and by the way--the guy who donated the bootleg copy, the one who is going for surgery, has just finished a biography of Tom Crean which will be published soon. I will forward this link to him--he should be back online while getting back on his feet. |
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08 Sep 10 - 03:40 PM (#2982581) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,mg That is awesome. I am trying to track down his genealogy as well as his history because it is quite possible that we are related and it would help me trace my ancestors. My ggm was Eliza Crehan of County Kerry..which is new info to us..we worked it out she was from Clonmel but she was not. Anyway, she ended up in Clermont Iowa, and although it was said she never saw her relatives again, a Bart and Hanora Crehan or Crean or Creehan (there are dozens of ways to spell this and it changes to Crogan, McCrogan etc.) appear from County kerry. There are many Creans in Annascul, and some from Blasket Islaands...so if anyone happens upon family trees etc. please let me know..we know that some Doolins/Dulins from Anascoul ended up in Clermont, and people tended to travel in clusters. Anyway, a great man and I am dying to see the book and the songbook. mg |
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08 Sep 10 - 03:42 PM (#2982582) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Bonnie Shaljean CLONES: Can you please add this thread to the blue-clicky list at the top? Ballad of Tom Crean http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=130163 |
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08 Sep 10 - 03:43 PM (#2982583) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Bonnie Shaljean PS: It has a different Crean ballad from the one mentioned above |
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12 Feb 11 - 12:26 AM (#3093734) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,scuttlebob Was there any further info re. the 'expedition songbook' that Melani mentioned. I would sure love to get a copy, or at least a list of the songs there-in. |
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12 Feb 11 - 05:46 PM (#3094042) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Two songs from Rude Awakening by Andy Irvine Rude Awakening In the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17, Shackleton famously led all his own party to safety, but Victor Hayward and Aenas McIntosh, two members of the Ross Sea party, lost their lives crossing the sea-ice from Hut Point to Cape Evans. Douglas Mawson Douglas Mawson had been a member of Shackleton's Nimrod expedition in 1907/08 and was drawn back to the Antarctic in 1911 at the head of his own expedition. His epic and tragic Antarctic journey has been referred to as probably the greatest story of lone survival in Polar exploration. |
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12 Feb 11 - 07:46 PM (#3094092) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,mg here again is his crew singing a song about him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Gs2pjpJvs&feature=related |
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13 Feb 11 - 02:47 PM (#3094521) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: MartinRyan Has anyone been able to establish the provenance of this recording? Regards |
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16 Feb 11 - 11:57 AM (#3096543) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Newly-formed Irish band The Difference Engine release their debut single 'Elephant Island' on February 15 2011, (explorer Ernest Shackleton's birthday), and will officially launch the track in Shebeen Chic on February 24. Seamus Eagan of Solas wrote the banjo tune "Vital Mental Medicine," inspired by the book The Endurance, Caroline Alexander's chronicle of explorer Ernest Shackleton. Joe Dolan from Galway wrote a song about Shackleton's arrival in Stromness, the whaling base in South Georgia; My name is Shackleton. It was recorded by the Planxty of 1983 with Andy Irvine, Arty McGlynn, Dolores Keane, James Kelly, Bill Whelan and Liam O'Flynn. |
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15 Feb 22 - 06:37 PM (#4136807) Subject: Lyr Add: The James Caird Saved the Day From: voyager pickup from a previous thread on 'Songs About Shackleton' I found this homage to the James Caird 7 meter sailing vessel that heroically braved the South Georgia Sea (1914) on the second Shackleton expedition. Credits to songwriter Cliff Wedgbury, a well-know UK poet, playwright and songwriter. Excepted from James Caird Journal V11.3 THE JAMES CAIRD SAVED THE DAY (Cliff Wedgbury) On Elephant Island the men were trapped, Survivors from the ice. Endurance crushed by surrounding floes, In the Weddell sacrificed. Upturned boats on that barren shore, Their home for months to come, As the James Caird they prepared, For a suicidal run. On the Southern Ocean, Heroes of the tide, The James Caird and her valiant crew, Helped all hands survive. Eight hundred miles to South Georgia, Salvation their belief, Six brave men on the stormy main, Sailing for relief. The savage waves surrounding them, Drenched by icy spray, Through screaming winds, they battled hard, To hold their nerve and pray. And the James Caird brought them safely back, To South Georgia’s mountains high, Seventeen days on the ocean wide, ‘Neath the wild Antarctic sky, Six brave souls with a savage tale, Of endurance against all odds, To amaze the Stromness whaler men, Who thought all hands were lost. The whaler boat with a canvas deck, McNish had used his skill, To raise the gunwales, caulk the hull, And every crack to fill. To cross the cold tempestuous sea, To find King Haakon Bay, The tiny craft had made it through, The James Caird saved the day. And the hardy crew showed bravery, For their shipmates cast away. On the Southern Ocean, Heroes of the tide, The James Caird and her valiant crew, Helped all hands survive. voyager veteran of the US Antarctic Program |
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16 Feb 22 - 04:40 AM (#4136846) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp In February 2022, a major international scientific expedition will explore one of the coldest, harshest and most remote locations in the world, in a quest to find the Endurance. Using underwater robots, helicopters and other state-of-the-art technology, the Endurance22 expedition aims to locate and survey Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship which sank in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica in 1915. |
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16 Feb 22 - 06:51 AM (#4136853) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GeoffLawes Some songs in Mudcat thread Any February Songs? /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169274#shackleton |
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16 Feb 22 - 08:38 AM (#4136858) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: beachcomber I happened upon a small EXHIBITION on The Shackleton Expeditions when strolling between the Museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington last Thursday. It was excellent of it's kind of mainly photographic and textual accounts. I had heard or seen no previous publicity of it ? |
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16 Feb 22 - 10:06 AM (#4136868) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,Iains Not so much song as a choral work Shackleton was commissioned by Gondwana Voices as part of the song cycle ‘Turn on the Open Sea’ in 2001 http://www.pauljarman.com/composition/shackleton/ |
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16 Feb 22 - 12:29 PM (#4136878) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp solas Solas play Vital Mental Medicine / The Pullet With his ship the Endurance being crushed by pack ice and sinking fast, Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton ordered his men over the side, telling them to take only the barest of personal possessions, a limit of no more than two pounds each. The one exception he made was for a five-string Windsor zither-banjo belonging to the expedition's meteorologist, a jaunty young man named Leonard Hussey. Although his repertoire was limited, Hussey had been keeping the party entertained through the long, dark, polar night, and Shackleton, keenly aware of the effects of stress and isolation on morale, wanted him to keep the tunes coming. "It's vital mental medicine," Shackleton said of the music, "and we shall need it." And so Hussey brought along his banjo, all 12 pounds of it, and over the next harrowing months, he helped sustain the party's spirits with weekly concerts and singalongs. [National Geographic] Andy Irvine is a great admirer of the Antarctic explorers. As Solas played Vital Mental Medicine, lights made patterns on the roof of the marquee. Look, I said, the aurora borealis! Don't you mean the aurora australis? said Andy. |
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18 Feb 23 - 12:42 PM (#4165467) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Felipa could anyone transcribe or otherwise get the lyrics of "Shackleton" recorded by Jennifer Tingley and Nick Turner? https://www.reverbnation.com/tingleyturner/songs |
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18 Feb 23 - 03:15 PM (#4165485) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Steve Gardham A chap called Green who was I think cook on the expedition used to come to our folk club in Hull in the 60s and show slides of the expedition. It was a long time ago, but I'd certainly like to know what was in that book of songs mentioned above. |
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18 Feb 23 - 03:23 PM (#4165486) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Steve Gardham That recording of the Tom Crean song is interesting. Sounds very authentic. The tune appears to be related to 'Uncle Tom Cobley' and 'Cigareets and Whiskey'. Again some provenance on that would be welcome. When recorded and by whom? |
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18 Feb 23 - 07:10 PM (#4165501) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Felipa Steve Gardham, if are you referring to the early recording http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Gs2pjpJvs>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Gs2pjpJvs Notes on youtube say it was recorded in 1918 (a few years after the expedition) by members of the crew. Mick Maloney played a bit of that recording in his introduction to the modern Ballad of Tom Crean by Cliff Wedgebury (Irish Arts Center youtube channel) but I don't think he said anything about the crew members being involved in the recording. |
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18 Feb 23 - 07:14 PM (#4165502) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Felipa link correction (from previous message) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Gs2pjpJvs = Like Steve Gardham I'd love to see the book Melani mentioned on 02 Sep 03 - "I think the guys on the expedition actually wrote a book of songs, and we have a bootleg copy here in the library, donated by a well-meaning soul who didn't realize he couldn't just xerox something that was copyrighted and donate it." Does anyone know anything about that book. I wonder what library Melani worked at. |
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18 Feb 23 - 07:32 PM (#4165506) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Felipa lyrics to Antartica by Al Stewart: https://alstewart.com/antarctica |
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19 Feb 23 - 12:10 PM (#4165533) Subject: RE: Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Felipa on 20 Feb 2011, Henry P. cited two Andy Irvine songs. Lyrics for Douglas Mawson are at https://andyirvinelyrics.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/douglas-mawson/ sound recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBKGjtuaRrE Lyrics for Rude Awakening https://www.andyirvine.com/lyrics/Lyrics%20-%20ODLR2.pdf sound recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuuM0xIYIg4 If you scroll down, you can find Irvine's notes about both songs at https://andyirvinenews.wordpress.com/category/new-release/ |
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19 Feb 23 - 12:15 PM (#4165534) Subject: Lyr Add: Antartica From: Felipa ANTARCTICA - Al Stewart & Peter White (Riff: Am Em C Em Am Em F (2X) F/G/Am F/G/Am F/G/Am C/E/Am) F G Am F G Am Long before I ever saw the frost upon your face F G Am C E7 Am I was haunted by your beauty, and it drew me to this place F G Am F G Am Felt the chill of mystery with one foot on your shore F G Am C E7 Am I then and there resolved to go, where no man had before C G F G Am Maybe I was snowblind, or perhaps it sapped my will F G Am C E7 Am E But something of my innocence is wandering there still Am Em C Em Am G F In Antartica Am Em C Em Am G F In Antartica ETC.... Long before I ever saw The frost upon your face I was haunted by your beauty And it drew me to this place I felt the chill of mystery With one foot on your shore And then and there resolved to go Where no man had before Maybe I was snowblind But it seemed the wind spoke true And I believed its stories then As dreamers sometimes do In Antarctica In Antarctica Who knows what the powers may be That cause a man to go Mindless of the dangers Out across the virgin snow Seduced by this ambition I easily forget The hopeless quest of Shackleton The dreamlike death of Scott In Antarctica In Antarctica Maybe I was snowblind But it seemed the wind spoke true And I believed its stories then As dreamers sometimes do In Antarctica In Antarctica Maybe I was snowblind Perhaps it sapped my will But something of my innocence Is wandering there still In Antarctica In Antarctica In Antarctica In Antarctica https://alstewart.com/antarctica HISTORY (COMPILED BY FANS) Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912) In 1900 Scott was chosen to lead the British National Antarctic Expedition on the DISCOVERY. They set sail from Cowes on August 6, 1901 with 50 men and 19 Greenland huskies. (SIDELIGHT: The 1989/90 Steger expedition included dogs descended from these huskies.) The expedition charted approximately 1,200 miles of coastline. Biological and meteorological as well as geological studies were done. In spring sledding parties set out to explore the continent. The most important of these was made up of Scott, Wilson and Shackleton's attempt to find a route to the pole. They set out on November 2, using all the dogs harnessed in 3 teams. By the time they reached 82-1'S, however, they were forced by illness to turn back. Scott was promoted to captain upon his return to England in 1904, and in 1905 was made commander of the Royal Victorian Order. In 1910 he organized another Antarctic expedition. Backed by the British and dominion governments the expedition set sail in June 1910 on the TERRA NOVA. In November 1911 Scott and 4 companions began traveling south by man hauled sledge. Delayed by bad weather, they reached the south geographic pole on January 17, 1912. Roald Amundsen, using dogs and favored by better weather, had gotten there on December 14, 1911. Upon making this discovery, Scott decided to spend several days collecting geological samples, perhaps hoping to make up for what he saw as a failure. (SIDENOTE: Amundsen's route was also shorter. He killed several of his dogs on his way to the pole, caching them along the route to feed the remaining dogs on his trip back.) On the return trip petty officer Edgar Evans suffered continual frostbite. He had twice fallen into crevasses, striking his head. He died in February 1912. On March 7, 1912 Captain Oates committed suicide by walking out into a blizzard. He had been unable to pull a sledge due to his weakened condition, and had hoped to ease the burden on his companions by sacrificing himself. On March 21, 1912 the remaining members of Scott's party were 11 miles from One Ton Depot. They had 2 days worth of food and one day's worth of fuel. That night a blizzard came up that lasted for 9 days. The last entry in Scott's log is dated March 29. It says, in part, "Everyday we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away but outside the door of the tent it remains a scene of whirling drift. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end can not be far. It seems a pity but I do not think I can write any more." On November 12, 1912 a search party found Scott's tent containing the bodies of Scott, Wilson, and Lieutenant Bowers. They built a cairn over the bodies of the explorers, and brought back all the diaries, personal papers and scientific records as well as 30 pounds of geological samples from the Beardmore glacier. A polar research institute was founded in Cambridge in 1920 in Scott's name to honor his work. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874 - 1922) Shackleton, then a lieutenant, was a deck officer on the British National Antarctic Expedition (DISCOVERY) lead by Scott. He took part in the sledge journey over the Ross Ice Shelf when latitude 82-16'33"S was reached. He became ill with scurvy, however, and was evacuated on the supply ship MORNING in March, 1903. In January 1908 he went back to Antarctica as the leader of the British Antarctic Expedition (NIMROD). He led a sledding party that got to within 87 miles of the south pole. The Victoria Land Plateau was claimed for the British crown. Shackleton was the first to use mechanical vehicles during the Nimrod expedition. He used an Arrol-Johnston vehicle with a 4-cylinder, 15 horsepower air cooled engine and ribbed tires. These vehicles, however, proved less useful then dogs under the extreme conditions in Antarctica. In March 1914 he left England with the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (ENDURANCE). He had planned to cross Antarctica from a base on the Weddell Sea to McMurdo Sound. The expedition ship ran into problems off the Caird coast, however, and drifted for 10 months before being crushed by pack ice October 27, 1915. The ship sank on November 21, 1915. The expedition drifted on the ice floes for 5 months. The finally escaped on small boats to Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands in April 1916. |
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19 Feb 23 - 12:21 PM (#4165535) Subject: Lyr Add: Douglas Mawson From: Felipa DOUGLAS MAWSON - Andy Irvine Once more the cruel Antarctic calls me back To set my foot where no man yet did go O memories of nineteen eight of taking chances tempting fate And the happy days we spent in McMurdo So we dropped our anchor off Adélie Land And we built a hut to stand the winter gale And when the sun returned again the air rang out with sounds of men And Greenland huskies eager for the trail From Aladdin’s cave we started on our way Our friends they bid goodbye and turned for home Xavier Mertz was there with me and Cherub Ninnis just we three Were left to carry on our fate unknown The black crevasse claimed Ninnis and his dogs It claimed our food our fuel it claimed our tent I never heard one single sound, just by chance I turned around As Ninnis to his death in silence went Defeat and death now stared us in the face We had one lightweight tent and that was all Just to stay alive we knew we’d have to kill the dogs for food How were we to know that they’d be our downfall A leaden glare now spread across the land And neither shape nor feature reached our eyes And nothing left to eat only deadly poison meat For my brave friend death has no disguise He wears the mask of illness on his face He wears the cloak of silence at the trace One night he bit his finger through and spat it out in the snow His cries of madness caused my blood to freeze When I awoke next morning he was dead The wreckage of his body stiff and cold I have to try and reach firm ground at least my diary must be found That someday this sad story may be told The soles of my feet became detached Teeth, nails, muscles all are gone Down icy pits I fell through space till brought up by my harness trace Give up give up there’s no point in going on Three weeks I staggered on across the ice Then a cairn of snow by sheer chance I struck A letter there told the tale of searching men that very day Even now I can’t believe my luck My pulse was racing as I saw the men My journey at an end no more to do My skeleton was easily raised and gently on the sledge was laid My God they cried which one of them are you? And later tears were wet upon their cheeks And my own eyes fill with the telling of the tale And on that bleak and distant shore the blizzard blows for evermore For those in icy tombs out on the trail notes by Andy Irvine "A song of mine about the great Australian Geologist and Antarctic explorer who, after travelling with Shackleton in 1907-09, led his own expedition to Adélie Land, a previously unexplored part of the Antarctic continent. His extraordinary courage in getting back to base after the death of his two companions made a big impression on me." |
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19 Feb 23 - 12:50 PM (#4165538) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Felipa I haven't been able to find the Shackleton song by Galway Joe Dolan cited by Declan and Henry P. It isn't listed on the 1983 Planxty album "Words and Music". Can anyone help? |
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20 Feb 23 - 08:30 PM (#4165680) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: rich-joy "could anyone transcribe or otherwise get the lyrics of "Shackleton" recorded by Jennifer Tingley and Nick Turner? https://www.reverbnation.com/tingleyturner/songs" I had done this, Felipa, (though I confess my work is currently hiding from me :) Around this time last year, a number of threads lost posts during a Mudcat Weird Time and were not able to be recovered, including some of mine. Meanwhile, here is news of another photographic exhibition, available online at Australia's National Archives (NAA) : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-21/early-antarctic-images-digitised-for-first-time/102001908 "Rare images from early Antarctic expeditions digitised and made available for first time" Cheers, R-J |
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20 Feb 23 - 08:52 PM (#4165683) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: rich-joy This 09March2022 NZ article has some great colour pics of the "Endurance" from the depths of the Weddell Sea : https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/463020/endurance-shackleton-s-wreck-found-in-brilliant-state-in-antarctic Endurance: Shackleton's wreck found in 'brilliant state' in Antarctic : Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915. (no banjo though) Cheers, R-J |
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20 Feb 23 - 09:01 PM (#4165687) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: rich-joy Perhaps a MudElf could add this useful thread to the Listing at the top of the "Shackleton" threads?? https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170822 "violin from Shackleton's floorboards" Cheers, R-J |
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21 Feb 23 - 03:30 AM (#4165703) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Long Firm Freddie Here's a link to a song Shackleton himself would have sung - the Dulwich College school song: Pueri Alleynienses LFF |
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21 Feb 23 - 08:18 AM (#4165736) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: rich-joy Here is the Trailer for the latest film/movie/series/doco re this Explorer : SHACKLETON, The Greatest Story of Survival. It will be shown in Australia 6th March. https://wallis.com.au/piccadilly_events/shackleton-the-greatest-story-of-survival/ "28 lost adventurers must fight for their lives after their only lifeline is destroyed in the most uninhabitable place on Earth – Antarctica. Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival reveals the true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance, told by the only man ever to have repeated their incredible feat – explorer and adventurer TIM JARVIS. Following in the beset crew’s footsteps, Tim reveals the enduring legacy of Shackleton’s crisis leadership in the face of impossible odds – a lesson more relevant to us now than ever before." R-J |
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21 Feb 23 - 09:50 AM (#4165742) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,William (awaiting registration) Here's a link to a song Shackleton himself would have sung - the Dulwich College school song: Pueri Alleynienses LFF As an OA myself, this did come to mind, lol! However, Shackleton didn't exactly enjoy his time at Dulwich, so I doubt he would have sung it (or understood the words if he did - he was also a terrible scholar). |
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22 Feb 23 - 05:03 AM (#4165828) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Long Firm Freddie Excellent short film about Shackleton and the James Caird on the Dulwich College website: James Caird "Adventure and Integrity are surely demonstrated most vividly by one of our most famous Old Alleynians, Sir Ernest Shackleton. It was in the James Caird, a 23 foot whaler, that he and five companions made the epic open boat voyage of 800 miles (1,300 km) from Elephant Island, 500 miles (800 km) south of Cape Horn, to South Georgia during the Antarctic winter of 1916. It is fitting that the James Caird now rests in the College as a permanent celebration of one our most illustrious alumni and of the values for which we stand." LFF |
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22 Feb 23 - 09:11 AM (#4165843) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Reinhard The Shackleton Trio sing Georgia Shackleton's song Endurance. It is also on their 2016 album The Dog Who Would Not Be Washed. Georgia is distantly related to Ernest Shackleton. |
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23 Feb 23 - 06:20 AM (#4165934) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp From: Felipa Date: 19 Feb 23 - 12:10 PM on 20 Feb 2011, Henry P. cited two Andy Irvine songs. Lyrics for Douglas Mawson are at https://andyirvinelyrics.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/douglas-mawson/ sound recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBKGjtuaRrE Lyrics for Rude Awakening https://www.andyirvine.com/lyrics/Lyrics%20-%20ODLR2.pdf sound recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuuM0xIYIg4 If you scroll down, you can find Irvine's notes about both songs at https://andyirvinenews.wordpress.com/category/new-release/ ANDY IRVINE Old Dog Long Road – volume 2; I can only find the notes for DISC 2! 3. Love To Be With You (Andy Irvine) Andy Irvine: bouzouki & vocal This started its life as a love song back in Ljubljana in 1968 and was converted into its present state for my album “Rude Awakening” in 1991. I left the chorus as it was but introduced elements of Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedition of 1911-1913 with its tragic end for the South Polar party. 8. Rude Awakening (Andy Irvine) Andy Irvine: mandola & vocal / Rens van der Zalm: fiddle Yet another song with Antarctic connotations. Shackleton’s expedition in 1915 to cross the Antarctic from one side to the other required two ships. The story of the ship Endurance, carrying Shackleton and his Trans-Antarctic party is well known as is the fact that his journey across Antarctica never even started. The other ship – Aurora – sailing with a support party to the opposite side to lay depots for Shackleton on the latter part of his long journey is not so well known. The officer in charge, Aeneas Mackintosh, made many mistakes, culminating in his ill advised decision to cross the sea ice before it had become stable. A blizzard blew up after he and a companion had started, blowing the ice out to sea and, in spite of subsequent searches, they were never seen again. I had an alternative couplet which I don’t sing here: – “What a beautiful dish we will make for the fish As we’re eaten alive by the sharks around us.” One can only hope that they drowned before that happened. |
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23 Feb 23 - 04:17 PM (#4165991) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Felipa Henry P, I included Andy Irvine's notes on the Douglas Mawson song on another 19 Feb post, along with the lyrics notes by Andy Irvine "A song of mine about the great Australian Geologist and Antarctic explorer who, after travelling with Shackleton in 1907-09, led his own expedition to Adélie Land, a previously unexplored part of the Antarctic continent. His extraordinary courage in getting back to base after the death of his two companions made a big impression on me." |
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24 Feb 23 - 05:25 AM (#4166025) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Thanks, Felipa. Here are the notes from Rude Awakening; Rude Awakening; One false step in the Antarctic was usually enough... The unfortunate Aeneas McIntosh had already lost an eye on a previous expedition; now after an exhausting nine week journey followed by a hasty and ill considered move, he and Hayward found themselves crossing the recently frozen sea. With the comfort of the base hut nearly in view, a gale blew up and blew them out into the open sea on an ever diminishing piece of ice - with fatal consequences. Douglas Mawson; Douglas Mawson's epic and tragic Antarctic journey has been referred to as probably the greatest story of lone survival in Polar exploration. An Australian geologist, he had been a member of Shackleton's Nimrod expedition in 1907/08 and like many other Antarctic explorers of the time was drawn back there in 1911 at the head of his own expedition. A man of incredible determination and strength of character, he weighed 210 lbs. of muscle and bone at the outset of the journey which had become 112 lbs. of skin and bone on his return. (Mawson was born on 5 May 1882 to Robert Ellis Mawson and Margaret Ann Moore. He was born in Shipley, West Riding of Yorkshire, but was less than two years old when his family emigrated to Australia. Wikipedia) And the lyrics from Love To Be With You; We pulled up our anchor and set sail in sweet November The day was fine, the sun did shine Such moments I remember Your face so sad and lonely, fading from my view But some small part of me remains with you Chorus Sometimes I feel I must just fly away Sometimes I feel goodbye's a word I just can't say But I'd love to be with you I'd love to be with you Outside the blizzard raging cares not for our distress The bitter taste of failure so nearly sweet success Brave enough we were alas, to no avail Such stories we could tell you Had we lived to tell the tale Chorus The music I heard at the moment I was born Was like crystal raindrops falling at dawn All my life I've listened just to catch one sweet refrain And gave up hope of hearing that sweet sound again I hear it all around me now I hear it all around me now I hear it all around me now I hear it all around me now |
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24 Feb 23 - 08:51 AM (#4166041) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Shackleton's Cabin Watch now Shackleton's Cabin https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001grr7 On 5 January 1922, world-famous Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton died of a heart attack in his cabin aboard The Quest during his final expedition to the South Pole. Moored in Norway, The Quest was broken apart. However, one of the dockers had the foresight to remove Shackleton’s cabin. He took it home and it served as his family’s garden shed for three generations. Nearly 100 years after Shackleton’s death, the cabin has been donated to a museum in the explorer’s hometown, where master craftsman and Shackleton enthusiast Sven Habermann painstakingly restores it to its former glory. With only one surviving photograph of the cabin’s interior, Sven goes to extreme lengths to retrace every detail, from the wood to the original wallpaper used. Shackleton’s Cabin follows Sven as he rebuilds the cabin and explores the life and final days of his hero. |
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28 Feb 23 - 12:32 AM (#4166346) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: crism See also Beth DeSombre’s excellent song “Shackleton’s Whiskey” from her album I Was Here. |
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28 Feb 23 - 05:22 AM (#4166355) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Scott described the hut’s feeling of comfort: ‘The word hut is misleading. Our residence is really a house of considerable size, in every respect the finest that has ever been erected in the polar regions’ Working from historical photographs and documents, it took experts ten years to conserve the huts, which had suffered due to water seepage, age, and simply being left exposed to the polar elements. https://carpenteroak.com/projects/scott-and-shackletons-huts-antarctica/ Scott and Shackleton huts |
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28 Feb 23 - 03:48 PM (#4166415) Subject: LYR ADD: Shackleton's Whiskey From: Felipa thanks to crism's suggestion of this song https://bethdesombre.com/track/2196086/shackleton-s-whiskey SHACKLETON'S WHISKEY Beth DeSombre The Great War had started but he travelled southward To conquer the continent, master the ice But soon the ship foundered, the passageway frozen The hull paid the ultimate price With no other the option the men set out walking With banjo and Bible in tow All sure that he would know where to go So here’s a toast to all the explorers Who know that adventure’s the goal Who hope to be worthy to honor his name But they’ll never drink Shackleton’s whiskey again No they’ll never drink Shackleton’s whiskey He’d been here before; his dreams and ambitions Were frozen forever in Antarctic ice Along with his liquor, although he might need it A symbol of his sacrifice But this time the ice that had splintered the ship Would not let them try to make land For six months they camped on the ice and planned So here’s a toast to all the explorers Who know that adventure’s the goal Who hope to be worthy to honor his name But they’ll never drink Shackleton’s whiskey again No they’ll never drink Shackleton’s whiskey As soon as the ice had begun to release They piled into lifeboats to head for the shore But where they made landfall was not on a trade route So he put to sea one time more He crossed open ocean in only a rowboat Then over a mountain for aid After two years on ice they were finally saved. So here’s a toast to all the explorers Who know that adventure’s the goal Who hope to be worthy to honor his name But they’ll never drink Shackleton’s whiskey again No they’ll never drink Shackleton’s whiskey So when you fear that just missed the mail ship And all your adventures have reached no good end Just ask whether you’ve found new routes to discover And trouble and fate to transcend Shackleton may have saved all of his comrades But this detail needs be told His whole life, he never reached the pole So here’s a toast to all the explorers Who know that adventure’s the goal Who hope to be worthy to honor his name But they’ll never drink Shackleton’s whiskey again No they’ll never drink Shackleton’s whiskey again No they’ll never drink Shackleton’s whiskey |
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28 Feb 23 - 11:54 PM (#4166444) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Shackleton's Song (EMPIRE WILD original) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNLL3kKezhg Shackleton's Song Getting ready for the winter with this song honoring the explorer Ernest Shackleton. This is from a live show we did at the University of Iowa School of Music back in November 2019! |
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01 Mar 23 - 12:41 AM (#4166446) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Nov 02 - 08:35 AM The previous thread "Zither banjo on Shackleton" includes a few song references, but what about songs about the expedition itself? Know of any? Susan Dr James Murray FRSE (21 July 1865, Glasgow – February 1914) was a biologist and explorer. In 1907, at the age of 41, he served under Ernest Shackleton on the Nimrod Expedition where he was in charge of the base camp. In 1913, he co-wrote a book about the expedition, titled Antarctic Days, with George Edward Marston (1882–1940), a fellow member of the expedition. Wikipedia https://www.warrenfahey.com.au/songs-from-the-shackleton-expedition-to-antartica/ CHANTIES By G. E. Marston This is extracted from the Shackleton team’s memoirs. It is most probably the last lucid report of shanties in use and makes for fascinating reading. FOLKLORE FROM THE SHACKLETON EXHIBITION TO ANTARTICA FROM ‘MEMORIES OF ANTARTIC DAYS’ BY JAMES MURRAY AND GEORGE MARSTON. 1913 SHANTIES played an active role in the pioneering Shackleton exhibition and this first-hand account states the following were sung: Santa Ana Leave Her Jollies Yankee Ship Blow the Man Down Sally Brown Paddy Doyle’s Boots Drunken Sailor Whiskey Johnny Stormalong The Merman Shanandoah |
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01 Mar 23 - 03:59 PM (#4166545) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Steve Gardham Hmmm. Shanties being sung, but is there any indication that they were being used as work songs or were they merely part of the concert repertoire? Also, Alan Villiers writes about using chanties for their proper use well into the 20s. |
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02 Mar 23 - 07:23 AM (#4166605) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp After Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition in 1911, this [Antarctic] crossing remained, in Shackleton's words, the "one great main object of Antarctic journeyings". Shackleton's expedition failed to accomplish this objective, but became recognized instead as an epic feat of endurance. On this day in 1958, a British team led by Vivian Fuchs completed the first crossing of the Antarctic, covering 2,158 miles from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea in 99 days. https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/1t5mvf/snocat_hangs_precariously_over_crevasse_during/ Sno-Cat hangs precariously over Crevasse during Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, November/December 1957. Of the three Tucker Sno-Cats that travelled to the South Pole, door-code 'A' is on display in the Antarctic section of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. Door-code 'B' is on display at the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum in Vista, California, United States. Door-code 'C' was returned to the UK, and is currently and is currently viewable via appointment at the Science Museum at Wroughton. The fate of the fourth Tucker Sno-Cat door-code 'D' is unknown, and may still be in the vicinity of Shackleton Base. Wikipedia https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/haywire-one-of-the-snowcats-used-by-dr-fuchs-and-his-news-photo/3259261 10th May 1958: 'Haywire', one of the snowcats used by Dr Fuchs and his Commonwealth explorers on their journey across the Antarctic continent, arrives at Tilbury from New Zealand, via Antwerp. This Snow-Cat must have toured the country. My mother took me to see it on display in Blackpool. Well, it was on a low-loader quite neglected in a car-park at Gynn Square. After all of its trips to desolate places, it looked as though it had been abandoned in Blackpool! |
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02 Mar 23 - 09:58 AM (#4166613) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Tattie Bogle Not specifically about Shackleton, but someone else mentioned Vaughan Williams' "Sinfonia Antarctica" (now with correct spelling) which sends shivers down my spine. Also, I don't think anyone yet has mentioned Vangelis' "Antarctica" suite, which was used as the soundtrack for a Japanese film: also very atmospheric music, but no singing. In 2007, I achieved a lifetime ambition of going to Antarctica and used some of Vangelis' suite as backing for my own videos of the trip (strictly non-commercial, for my own private use only!)It was a good alternative to the ambient soundtrack of wind noise! |
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02 Mar 23 - 10:13 AM (#4166618) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: GUEST,henryp Steve Gardham - you may enjoy this recollection! https://www.warrenfahey.com.au/songs-from-the-shackleton-expedition-to-antartica/ Chanties Marston CHANTIES By G. E. Marston This is extracted from the Shackleton team’s memoirs. It is most probably the last lucid report of shanties in use and makes for fascinating reading. |
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02 Mar 23 - 02:41 PM (#4166652) Subject: RE: Shackleton Antarctic Expedition: Songs? From: Steve Gardham Thanks for that, Henry. Some interesting descriptions of latter-day chanty attempts, by mainly outsiders. Pleased with the use of the old spelling, but they certainly do not date back to Tudor times, 1830 at the earliest, and African-American at that. |