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SIDE
ONE
- Bird Polka
- The Liberty Song
- Revolutionary Tea
- Fish and Tea
- The Irishman's Epistle
- To the Commons
- The Rebels
- The Dying Redcoat
- To the Ladies
- Sullivan's Island
- Nathan Hale
- The Battle of Trenton
- The Bennington Riflemen
- The Fate of John Burgoyne
SIDE
TWO
- How Stands the Glass Around?
- Come Out Ye Continentalers
- The Battle of the Kegs
- Sir Henry Clinton's
- Invitation
- Yankee Doodle's Expedition
to Rhode Island
- Shule Aroon
- The Ballad of Paul Jones
- The Ballad of Major Andre
- The Country Dance
- The World Turned Upside Down
- The Nineteenth of October
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Here
is a unique and truly remarkable recording. Not only does it
make available a number of little-known songs from the distant
past; it makes the past itself spring to life. By means of a skillful
interweaving of music and narrative the story of the American
Revolution is retold in a stirring epic form. The depth and
grandeur of the tragic struggle between mother country and colony
is conveyed by giving full weight to both American and British
points of view. History told through song is living history.
Traditionally, in the era before the advent of the printing
press, the people themselves translated the varied experience
of life into song. The ballads of the Revolution are the newspapers
of that day. They transmute the experiences of the revolutionary
struggle into an enduring musical and literary form.
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SIDE ONE
- In the Wilderness
- Old Abe Lincoln
- The Dissolution
Wagon
- John Brown of Massachusetts
- The Union Volunteer
- Song of the Mississippi Volunteers
- Aileen Aroon -Treasure of My Heart
- Southern Yankee Doodle
- Shiloh's Hill
- The New Ballad
of Lord Lovell
- O Johnny Bull My Jo John
- The Homespun Dress
- We Have the Navy
SIDE TWO
- Maryland, My Maryland
- General Lee's Wooing
- Auction
Block
- The First of Arkansas
- Riding A Raid
- The Vacant Chair
- A Life on the Vicksburg Bluff
- Sherman's March to the Sea
- Grant's the Man
- Roll Alabama Roll
- The Old Unreconstructed
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This recording is more than a collection of songs. It is
a collection of people, North and South - their hopes, their
fears, their reactions to this, the most tragic of all our
wars. It is a continuously flowing story
sung and told by the men who fought it, their leaders and
their homefolk - through their songs, their letters, spontaneous
utterances.
We at Heirloom believe that by allowing the people to speak
for themselves it is possible for us to get a clear understanding
of this complex conflict.
A profusely illustrated booklet with complete song texts and
supplementary material is available separately.
Authentic in every detail!
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SIDE ONE
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Paddy Get Back (capstan)
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Cheerily Man (hand over hand)
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Bust and Bend Her (hand over hand)
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Johnny Come Down to Hilo (hand over hand)
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England Old Ireland (halyard)
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The Alabama (halyard)
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Blow the Man Down (halyard)
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Tommy's Gone to Hilo (jib halyard)
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Haul Away My Rosey (jib halyard)
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Hilly Riley (jib halyard)
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Shenandoah (capstan) • South Australia (capstan)
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Boney (short drag)
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The Drunken Sailor (stamp and go)
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Haul on the Bowline (short drag)
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Haul Away Joe (short drag)
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Round the Bay in Mexico (fo'c's'l)
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The Banks of Newfoundland (fo'c's'l)
SIDE TWO
- The Jolly Roving Tar (fo'c's'l)
- First Voyage (story) • Adieu to Maimuna (fo'c's'l)
- Let Go the Reefy Tackle (fo'c's'l)
- Paddy Doyle (short drag-bunt
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Sea shanties as they were
actually sung aboard the great windjammers-deep water men hurling
their weight on the lines and the capstan bars to the rhythm of their
forebitter songs-with only the sounds of the sea and the ship and
the shouted orders as accompaniment. With an excellent, on-the-spot,
narrative explanation of the working of the ship. PLUS-life at sea
recaptured in a hilarious story told by master yarn spinner, the late
Captain Harry Garfield, one of the last of the great sailing masters.
A well illustrated booklet with complete song texts and supplementary
material is available separately.
Imagine yourself on board
an outward bound square rigger, weighing anchor in the middle of the
nineteenth century. From your place on the quarter deck you are aware
of all the busy harbor sounds. You hear the men singing in the anchor,
as they march around the capstan, the tramp of their feet, the clank
of the falling pawls....
You join the watch below for a taste of fo'c's'l life, hear the sound
of the sea against the hull, the groaning timbers as a background
for the songs and stories of the sailors during their time off watch
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Songs of Yankee Whaling was produced as a companion for The Story of Yankee Whaling, an American Heritage (American Heritage Junior Library). Therefore there is no booklet for this title. The book is no longer in print, but you can still find a used copy through Amazon.com.
Story of Yankee Whaling (American Heritage Junior Library) |
SIDE ONE
- The Greenland Whale Fishery
- The Diamond
- Off to Sea Once More
- The Cold Coast of Greenland
- Blow Ye Winds in the Morning
- A Fitting Out
- Reuben Ranzo
- Cape Horn
- The Coat of Peru
SIDE TWO
- Rio Grande
- Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor
- Ship in Distress
- We'll Rant and We'll Roar
- E Tau Hoa Here
- The Little Mohea
- The Sailor's Grave
- Rolling Home
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One of the most adventurous occupations in young
New England was whaling, brimming as it was with mortal dangers
from the elements and the prey, ~ All this, down to the sound
of the wind and sea, the creaks and groans of the rigging and
the cries of the captain and mates, has been captured on this
recording, thanks to Bill Bonyun, former resident singer and
folklorist of Old Sturbridge Village, Mass. Bonyun directed
the music, sounds, narration, and singing on Songs
of Yankee Whaling.
To get the authentic flavor of life on a whaling ship, Bonyun
traveled the East Coast, recording voices and nautical sound
effects. To narrate the script, which takes the listener through
the discovery, chase, and capture of a whale, plus the making
of the oil, Bonyun chose Stephen Merrill whose New England drawl
is a delight to hear. Music is provided by Bonyun's guitar and
his son Steve's concertina and harmonica. Along with an eight
man chorus, Bonyun and his wife, Gene, vocalize the seventeen
songs, which range from sea shanties (work songs) to love laments,
One hears Tahitian ballads, including one rendered by Elienne
LaRoche, a lovely-voiced Tahitian with a three-octave range.
There are songs treating death on the seas, an amusing offering
about a latter-day Jonah, and mournful accounts of ocean tragedies
and ballads in which the whalers exult in the sounds, smells,
and sights of their beloved sea. All go to make up a fascinating
record which captures the essence of the exciting life of a
whaling man.
The recording may also be used as the "sound track" for The
Story of Yankee Whaling, an American Heritage Junior Library
book whose 150 pages are filled with authentic accounts of Yankee
whaling and 186 color and black and white illustrations. (Note:
This publication is out of print, but can still be found at
several places on the web, such as: the Kendall
Institute.)
ENID SCHWARTZ WALD
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SIDE ONE
- Yankee Doodle
- Waly Waly
- Psalm III
- The Young Man Who Couldn't Hoe Corn
- Song of the Fishes (Boston Come All Ye)
- Lumberman's Alphabet
- Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn
- The Connecticut Peddler
- Father Abby's Will
- The Old Man Who Lived in the Wood
SIDE TWO
- Jenny Jenkins
- The Golden Vanity
- The Frog in the Spring
- Katie Cruel
- Doodle Dandy
- Riflemen of Bennington
- Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
- Blow the Man Down
- The Herring
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Here's a wonderful big pot of New England chowder. Everything
that's right to be in it is in it, and Gene Bonyun's haunting melodies
give it just the right touch of delightful flavor. There are nineteen
songs in this one recording - songs that have fought wars, chopped
down forests, tilled the land, sailed ships, peddled Yankee notions,
amused children and fought off the tedium of long New England nights
around the hearth. Every ,song has a brief, thoughtful, interesting
introduction, told in an easy, relaxed style, so that the story flows
along evenly without a break. When you come to the end you have a
new grasp of the New England land, sea and people, and the Yankee
Legend has become a part of you. It's a good thing.
Frank
Warner, 1959
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