Post by Adam on Feb 9, 2007 10:21:20 GMT -5
So this may interest only me but I am going to share.
I find it interesting listening to different versions of the traditional songs GBS has recorded. Recently, I took an album of sea chanteys out of the library. The album has a version of General Taylor which is identical (except for the use of a squeezebox) and on the album is a USA version of Spanish Girls, an English sea chantey which is very similar to "Rant and Roar".
The chorus for this song is:
We'll rant and we'll roar
Like true yankee sailors
We'll rant and we'll roar
On deck and below
Until we have sight of the New Bedford line
And Straight up the channel we'll go
It's cool for me cause I live near New Bedford!
Other cool versions of traditional GBS songs:
Nic Jones, who is an english folk singer, recorded Yarmouth Town on his "Unearthed" album. And the Smithsonian has many recordings of Alan Mills, who is supposedly one of the influences of GBS in terms of the traditional material they pick. Almost all of the traditional songs they have recorded are on thje Alan Mills field recordings.
Thought I'd share!
I find it interesting listening to different versions of the traditional songs GBS has recorded. Recently, I took an album of sea chanteys out of the library. The album has a version of General Taylor which is identical (except for the use of a squeezebox) and on the album is a USA version of Spanish Girls, an English sea chantey which is very similar to "Rant and Roar".
The chorus for this song is:
We'll rant and we'll roar
Like true yankee sailors
We'll rant and we'll roar
On deck and below
Until we have sight of the New Bedford line
And Straight up the channel we'll go
It's cool for me cause I live near New Bedford!
Other cool versions of traditional GBS songs:
Nic Jones, who is an english folk singer, recorded Yarmouth Town on his "Unearthed" album. And the Smithsonian has many recordings of Alan Mills, who is supposedly one of the influences of GBS in terms of the traditional material they pick. Almost all of the traditional songs they have recorded are on thje Alan Mills field recordings.
Thought I'd share!
and my aunt has given me his HUGE collection of folk (american, canadian, scottish, and irish) records from the 60s and 70s. So I have dusted off my turntable and been having a ball! I was listening to a Saill Wizard album from the late 70s last night (Scottish band featuring the grets fiddle player Johnny Cunningham) and the album has on it "Ferryland Sealer"!!! Interesting to hear the original Scottish version! They recorded it in 1978.