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Hierloom Records
Heirloom Records
and
Cobscook Community Learning Center Home
present:
America and Her People Through Their Songs and Ballads
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
with
BILL BONYUN, ANTHONY SCOTT and GENE BONYUN

the American Revolution Through its Songs and Ballads
Cassette - $7 plus shipping

CD - $12 plus shipping
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the American Revolution Through its Songs and Ballads

14 page booklet - $3 plus shipping

SIDE ONE

  1. Bird Polka
  2. The Liberty Song
  3. Revolutionary Tea
  4. Fish and Tea
  5. The Irishman's Epistle
  6. To the Commons
  7. The Rebels
  8. The Dying Redcoat
  9. To the Ladies
  10. Sullivan's Island
  11. Nathan Hale
  12. The Battle of Trenton
  13. The Bennington Riflemen
  14. The Fate of John Burgoyne

SIDE TWO

  1. How Stands the Glass Around?
  2. Come Out Ye Continentalers
  3. The Battle of the Kegs
  4. Sir Henry Clinton's
  5. Invitation
  6. Yankee Doodle's Expedition
    to Rhode Island
  7. Shule Aroon
  8. The Ballad of Paul Jones
  9. The Ballad of Major Andre
  10. The Country Dance
  11. The World Turned Upside Down
  12. The Nineteenth of October

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.

 
THE CIVIL WAR
through its Songs & Ballads
with
FRANK WARNER
BILL BONYUN and others

the Civil War Through it's Songs and Ballads

Cassette - $7 plus shipping

CD - $12 plus shipping

(Note: CDs are not digital quality. they are coppied from cassettes)

Download Mp3 - $10

Mp3s are not digital quality. they are coppied from cassettes)

the Civil War Through it's Songs and Ballads

14 page booklet - $3 plus shipping

 

SIDE ONE

  1. In the Wilderness
  2. Old Abe Lincoln
  3. The Dissolution Wagon
  4. John Brown of Massachusetts
  5. The Union Volunteer
  6. Song of the Mississippi Volunteers
  7. Aileen Aroon -Treasure of My Heart
  8. Southern Yankee Doodle
  9. Shiloh's Hill
  10. The New Ballad of Lord Lovell
  11. O Johnny Bull My Jo John
  12. The Homespun Dress
  13. We Have the Navy

SIDE TWO

  1. Maryland, My Maryland
  2. General Lee's Wooing
  3. Auction Block
  4. The First of Arkansas
  5. Riding A Raid
  6. The Vacant Chair
  7. A Life on the Vicksburg Bluff
  8. Sherman's March to the Sea
  9. Grant's the Man
  10. Roll Alabama Roll
  11. The Old Unreconstructed
 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!
ROLL AND GO
The Shantyman's Day Aboard a Yankee Clipper
by BILL BONYUN, Folklorist

Roll and Go - the Shanyman's Day Aboard a Yankee Clipper

Cassette - $7 plus shipping

CD - $12 plus shipping

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Roll and Go - the Shanyman's Day Aboard a Yankee Clipper

6 page booklet - $3 plus shipping

SIDE ONE

  1. Paddy Get Back (capstan)
  2. Cheerily Man (hand over hand)
  3. Bust and Bend Her (hand over hand)
  4. Johnny Come Down to Hilo (hand over hand)
  5. England Old Ireland (halyard)
  6. The Alabama (halyard)
  7. Blow the Man Down (halyard)
  8. Tommy's Gone to Hilo (jib halyard)
  9. Haul Away My Rosey (jib halyard)
  10. Hilly Riley (jib halyard)
  11. Shenandoah (capstan) • South Australia (capstan)
  12. Boney (short drag)
  13. The Drunken Sailor (stamp and go)
  14. Haul on the Bowline (short drag)
  15. Haul Away Joe (short drag)
  16. Round the Bay in Mexico (fo'c's'l)
  17. The Banks of Newfoundland (fo'c's'l)

SIDE TWO

  1. The Jolly Roving Tar (fo'c's'l)
  2. First Voyage (story) • Adieu to Maimuna (fo'c's'l)
  3. Let Go the Reefy Tackle (fo'c's'l)
  4. 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 ...
Songs Of Yankee Whaling
Sung by Bill Bonyun & Chorus / Narrated by Steven Merrill
With guitar, concertina, and harmonica accompaniment

Songs of Yankee Whaling

Cassette - $7 plus shipping

CD - $12 plus shipping

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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
Story of Yankee Whaling (American Heritage Junior Library)

SIDE ONE

  1. The Greenland Whale Fishery
  2. The Diamond
  3. Off to Sea Once More
  4. The Cold Coast of Greenland
  5. Blow Ye Winds in the Morning
  6. A Fitting Out
  7. Reuben Ranzo
  8. Cape Horn
  9. The Coat of Peru

SIDE TWO

  1. Rio Grande
  2. Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor
  3. Ship in Distress
  4. We'll Rant and We'll Roar
  5. E Tau Hoa Here
  6. The Little Mohea
  7. The Sailor's Grave
  8. 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
Scholastic Teacher Jan. 7, 1962
Yankee Legend
The Story Of New England Through Its Songs And Ballads
with Bill and Gene Bonyun

Yankee Legend - the Story of New England Through it's Songs and Ballads

Cassette - $7 plus shipping

CD - $12 plus shipping

(Note: CDs are not digital quality. they are coppied from cassettes)

Download Mp3 - $10

Mp3s are not digital quality. they are coppied from cassettes)

Yankee Legend - the Story of New England Through it's Songs and Ballads

14 page booklet - $3 plus shipping

SIDE ONE

  1. Yankee Doodle
  2. Waly Waly
  3. Psalm III
  4. The Young Man Who Couldn't Hoe Corn
  5. Song of the Fishes (Boston Come All Ye)
  6. Lumberman's Alphabet
  7. Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn
  8. The Connecticut Peddler
  9. Father Abby's Will
  10. The Old Man Who Lived in the Wood

SIDE TWO

  1. Jenny Jenkins
  2. The Golden Vanity
  3. The Frog in the Spring
  4. Katie Cruel
  5. Doodle Dandy
  6. Riflemen of Bennington
  7. Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
  8. Blow the Man Down
  9. The Herring
 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
Noted Collector and Singer
 
 
 

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