Compilations of Sea Songs & Shanties

TSCD662 WE'VE RECEIVED ORDERS TO SAIL
TSCD652 MY SHIP SHALL SAIL THE OCEAN
TSCD499 ROUND CAPE HORN
TSCD464 BLOW THE MAN DOWN

Jackie Tar At Sea & On Shore
Volume 12 of The Voice Of The People, a Series Of Anthologies of Traditional Music
Edited by Reg Hall

WE'VE RECEIVED ORDERS TO SAIL VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD662

1 JUMBO BRIGHTWELL voice: The Loss Of 'The Ramilly'
2 PADDY TUNNEY voice: Captain Coulson
3 POP MAYNARD voice: A Sailor ln The North Country
4 HARRY COX voice: Just As The Tide Was A-Flowing
5 CHRIS WILLETT voice: The Rambling Sailor
6 SAM LARNER voice: TheSailors' Alphabet
7 JOHN REA dulcimer: Coil The Hawser / Lord MacDonald
8 CYRIL POACHER voice: Nancy Of Yarmouth
9 JOHNNY DOUGHTY voice: Baltimore
10 MAY BRADLEY voice: The Willow Tree
11 HARRY COX voice: Come All You Men Throughout This Nation
12 JAMES McDERMOTT voice: My Mother's Last Goodbye
13 BOB HART voice: The Female Cabin Boy
14 WALTER BULWER fiddle: The Sailor Cut Down In His Prime
15 JOHNNY DOUGHTY voice: Up The Channel
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16 GEORGE LING (pictured) voice: Jolly Jack The Sailor
17 NORA CLEARY voice: Farewell, Lovely Mary
18 FRANK VERRILL voice: Stowborough Town
19 GERRY WIMSEY tin-whistle: Ships Are Sailing / The Heather Breeze
20 JOHNNY DOUGHTY voice: Will You Marry Me?
21 TOM BROWN voice: Windy Old Weather
22 HARRY COX voice: The Bold 'Princess Royal'
23 CYRIL POACHER voice: Plenty Of Thyme
24 JOHNNY DOUGHTY voice: The Streets Of Port Arthur
25 SAM LARNER voice: The Lofty Tall Ship
26 POP MAYNARD voice with chorus; Polly On The Shore

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Songs Of Tempest & Sea Battles, Sailor Lads & Fishermen
Volume 2 of The Voice Of The People, a Series Of Anthologies of Traditional Music
Edited by Reg Hall

MY SHIP SHALL SAIL THE OCEAN VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD652

1 CYRIL POACHER voice: A Broadside
2 PADDY TUNNEY voice: The Lowlands Of Holland
3 TOM WILLETT voice: Riding Down To Portsmouth
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4 JOHNNY DOUGHTY (pictured) voice: Come My Own One, Come My Fond One
5 JOHN RAE dulcimer: The Sailor On The Rope / The Bonnie Bunch Of Roses
6 SAM LARNER voice: In Scarborough Town
7 LIZZIE HIGGINS voice, with chorus: Sandy's A Sailor
8 TURP BROWN voice: The Streams Of Lovely Nancy
9 GEORGE LING voice: On Board The Leicester Castle
10 MARY ANN CAROLAN voice: In London So Fair
11 WALTER PARDON voice: A Ship To Old England Came
12 FRANK VERRILL voice: Jesus At Thy Command
13 HARRY UPTON voice: The Royal Albion
14 HARRY COX voice: The Pretty Ploughboy
15 MICHO BUSSELL voice: The Poor Little Fisherboy
16 BOB HART voice: Cod Banging
17 JOHNNY DOUGHTY voice: Round Rye Bay For More
18 PHIL TANNER voice: Young Henry Martin
19 CYRIL POACHER voice: A Sailor And His True Love
20 BOB ROBERTS voice, with chorus: The Fish And Chip Ship
21 JUMBO BRIGHTWELL voice: The Oak And The Ash
22 WILLIE SCOTT voice: The Banks Of Newfoundland
23 FRED JORDAN voice: The Dark-Eyed Sailor
24 WAITER PARDON voice: Jack Tar Ashore

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Traditional Songs of Sailors, Ships & The Sea
Not shanties but sailors' ballads and forebitters, the songs sung when off-duty to entertain fellow seamen. The pageant of British seafaring leaps off the history books' pages and comes to life in these strong renditions by Ewan MacColl, A.L.Lloyd, Roy Harris and other outstanding interpreters of sailors' songs.

ROUND CAPE HORN VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD499

1 Ewan MacColl : Round Cape Horn
2 Roy Harris : The Royal Oak
3 Louis Killen : As We Were a-Sailing
4 Roy Harris : Captain Ward
5 Peter Bellamy : Warlike Seamen
6 A.L.Lloyd : Farewell Nancy
7 Frankie Armstrong : Maid On the Shore
8 Roy Harris : The Dockyard Gate
9 The Watersons : The Still & Silent Ocean
10 Cyril Tawney : Roll Down
11 Ewan MacColl : The Bold Richard
12 Roy Harris : The Spithead Sailor
13 Mike Waterson : The Man O'War
14 Frankie Armstrong : Lovely On the Water
15 A.L.Lloyd : Short Jacket & White Trousers
16 Roy Harris : The Royal Charter
17 Ewan MacColl : Homeward Bound
18 Mike Waterson : Bye Bye Skipper

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Sea songs and shanties
A treasure-chest of seafaring songs delivered by such fine inter-preters as Louis Killen, The Watersons, Bob Davenport, Ian Campbell and Cyril Tawney. The two dozen performances include some of the best-known of all British sea songs and shanties, evoking a long and turbulent history of shipwrecks and sea-battles, of tall ships and whalers and the men who sailed in them.

BLOW THE MAN DOWN VARIOUS ARTISTS TSCD464

1 Louis Killen : The Wild Goose
2 Ian Campbell : Lovely Nancy
3 Ewan MacColl : The Black Ball Line
4 Cyril Tawney : The Nightingale
5 Harry H Corbett : Blow the Man Down
6 Louis Killen : Heave Away My Johnny
7 Sam Larner : The Lofty Tall Ship
8 Ian Campbell : Row Bullies Row
9 Louis Killen : The Flying Cloud
10 Cyril Tawney : The Fireship
11 Bob Davenport : Tom's Gone to Hilo
12 The Watersons : Greenland Whale Fishery
13 Louis Killen : The Ship in Distress
14 Ian Campbell : Lowlands Low
15 Bob Hart : Cod Banging
16 Cyril Tawney : One Morning in Spring
17 Louis Killen : Hilo Johnny Brown
18 A.L.Lloyd : The Bonny Ship The Diamond
19 Louis Killen : The Bold Princess Royal
20 Bob Davenport : Billy Boy
21 Bob Roberts : Windy Old Weather
22 Cyril Tawney : The Bold Benjamin
23 Ian Campbell : The Hog-Eye Man
24 Louis Killen : Good Bye, Fare Thee Well

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