Sailors' Songs & Sea Shanties

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 17, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Highpoint UK
• ASIN: B00026W85M
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,881 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blood Red Roses

2. The Dreadnought

3. The Cruel Ship's Captain

4. Row Bullies Row

5. Santy Anna

6. Lowlands Away

7. Boston Harbour

8. Do Me Ama

9. The Handsome Cabin Boy

10. Poor Old Horse

11. The Sailboat 'Malarkey'

12. Away Haul Away

13. The Coast of Peru

14. The Gauger

15. Andrew Rose

16. A Hundred Years Ago

17. The Gallant Frigate Amphitrite

18. Reuben Ranzo

19. The Flying Cloud

20. Lord Franklin

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Salt Water on a CD, October 3, 2006

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Charles L. Miller (Elkins Park, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This is a collection for the true fan of the sea shanty (or chantey). The compilation is done acapella and feels as if you are on board a sailing ship in the 19th century. Eleven are sung by A. L. Lloyd, one of the foremost collectors of these songs andeight are by the late Ewan MacColl, a British folk icon.
If you want to hear and learn sea songs as they were most likely done by sailors pumping and hauling, this is a fine resource/

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Authentic-sounding sea chanties, July 20, 2008

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Johnathan Bracken (NYC) - See all my reviews
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If you want to know how sea chanties originally sounded on the decks and under them back in the 18th and 19th centuries, this is an album for you. It can be a time-consuming process to sort through the load of sea chanty albums out there that when you're trying to find the traditional sound. Therefore, if you like the sound of this album I also recommend the following albums, composed by various performers including some on this album: Blow the Man Down; Round Cape Horn; Shanties & Songs of the Sea. These albums have a great mix of emotion in them, from rip-roarin' drinking songs to inspirational working songs to melancholy tunes about ships that were swallowed up by the sea.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For lovers of the sea, ships and sailors, June 17, 2009

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Julie A. Gambino - See all my reviews
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Look at that beautiful ship on the cover ... and inside? It lists all the parts of the ship - fer ye landlubbers - from a flying jib to a main brace. Some songs are familiar - Away, Haul Away - to Bring 'em Down and a few pirate ballads to boot.