Songs of the Sea (Stanford) and Other Songs of Sea Empire

J. P. McCall (Composer), Charles Villiers Stanford (Composer), Albert Arlen (Composer), Gay (Composer), William Percy French (Composer), William Reeve (Composer), Edmond Audran (Composer), John L. Hatton (Composer), William Garrett James (Composer), Walter Hedgecock (Composer), Irving Berlin (Composer), Billy Haid (Composer), Edward German (Composer), Stuart (Composer), Ciro Pinsuti (Composer), Henry Lamb (Composer), Ambient Lohr (Composer), Gerald Moore (Performer), Peter Dawson (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Gerald Moore, Peter Dawson
• Composer: J. P. McCall, Charles Villiers Stanford, Albert Arlen, Gay, William Percy French, et al.
• Audio CD (January 4, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pearl
• ASIN: B000000WUI
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #414,602 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Boots

2. 'Songs Of The Sea': Devon, O Devon

3. 'Songs Of The Sea': Outward Bound

4. 'Songs Of The Sea': The Old Superb

5. 'Songs Of The Sea': Drake's Drum

6. 'Songs Of The Sea': Homeward Bound

7. The Rivetter

8. The Fleet's Not In Port Very Long

9. The Mountains O'Mourne

10. I Am A Frair Of Orders Grey

11. A Jovial Monk Am I

12. Simon The Cellarer

13. Austrailian Bush Songs

14. On The Road To Mandalay

15. Follow The Fleet: We Saw The Sea

16. Saddle Your Blues To A Wild Mustang

17. Rolling Down To Rio

18. The Bandolero

19. Bedouin Love Song

20. The Volunteer Organist

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Peter Dawson--Songs of Sea and Empire, June 26, 2000

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Gary A. Lynch (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs of the Sea (Stanford) and Other Songs of Sea Empire (Audio CD)

If you are a Peter Dawson devotee, as I am, this is an essential album to have. It includes many items I had never heard the great man sing, as well as some of his greatest song renditions. No Peter Dawson collection is complete without "We Saw the Sea", "On the Road to Mandelay", "The Fleet's not in Port Very Long", and "Saddle Your Blues to a Wild Mustang". Among the titles that were new to me that I liked were "The Unacccompanied Organist", and some of the Australian Bush Songs. Mr. Dawson is quite an acquired taste for an American. He was at his best singing songs of the British Empire glories. Once you have heard him at his best though, singing his definitive version of "Waltzing Matilda" or any of about 30 selections that could be described as his "greatest hits", I think if you have any feeling for they type of music he performed, you will be hooked. Mr. Dawson may be the finest singer that Americans have never heard of. Only one record, that of 'Matilda', backed by the "Mauri Poi Song", was ever released in the United States in his lifetime (1882-1961). Luckily, more of his material is coming to CD, and music listeners are the better for it. For years, I was restricted to an occasional Gilbert and Sullivan aria that happened to be in a collection, or the occasional '78 that happened to have made it across the ocean somehow. This CD was a good addition to my Dawson collection, and I recommend it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, November 13, 2006

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wine lover "winelover" (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs of the Sea (Stanford) and Other Songs of Sea Empire (Audio CD)

Beautiful voice, beautiful songs. Recordings from an era we can be nostalgic about. Singers should listen to it: how to project a voice and how to pronunciate.