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Bitter End
"Woodside"
Bartlow Road
Castle Camps
Cambridgeshire
CB21 4SX
United Kingdom
Tel. No. +44(0) 1799 584718
Email:alan@shanty.co.uk
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Directory of Shanty & Sea Song Recordings - UK
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NAUTICAL - BUT NICE!
The Anchormen (UK)
CD
Availability:The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
Tracks:
Polka d'Aviron/La Bransle, Paddy & the Whale, On Board of a Ninety Eight, New York
Gals, Egg & Cabbage/Melody Iron, The Old Ship's Rolling Home, Shanty Medley, Spanish
Ladies, Angelique/Joe Egan's, Turkisk Man O'War, The Rosabella, The Greenland Whale
Fisheries/The Hunt, Goodbye Fare Ye Well, The Farewell Shanty.
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'OLD SWANSEA TOWN'
Baggyrinkle (Wales).
CD
2000
Tracks:
A Long Time Ago, Old Moke, Turkish Men O'War, Codi Angor (Sung in Welsh), Sail Away (Rod Shearman), Roll Down (Peter
Bellamy), Shallow Brown, 150 Days Out Of Vancouver (Cicely Fox-Smith/Tom Lewis), Roll Bullies Roll, Her Bright Smile,
Old Fid (Bill Lowndes), Rolling Home (adapted by Dave Robinson), Roll Alabama Roll, Time Ashore (Bill Meek), Old
Swansea Town, Billy Riley, Pleasant & Delightful, Cheer'ly Man, The Arabella, The Last Shanty (Tom Lewis).
Recorded at Dreamworld Studios, Priskilly Fawr, Hayscastle, Pembroke.
Old Rope Recordings. Cat No: ORCD 01.
The CD's are available from the Chanty Cabin and from Baggyrinkle.
Enquiries by e-mail to: Terri Kennedy or
David Robinson
A POUND & A PINT
Baggyrinkle (Swansea)
Cassette
1996
Black Mountain Records - CBM 3092
Availability: David Robinson. Tel: +44(0)1792 415725 Fax +44(0)1792 464871.
Dave Robinson
or visit Baggyrinkle Website
A Side:
Randy Dandy O, Johnny Come Down to Hilo, Roll the Cotton, Pirate's Serenade, Hob y Derri Dando, Haul on yer Halyards, Sam's Gone Away, I'm Gonna Roll Here.
B Side:
John Brown's Daughter, Ibo Girls, Essequibo River, A Pound and a Pint, The Lady Maria, The Blackball Line, A Hundred Years Ago, New York Girls, Mingulay Boat Song.
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'NOW & THEN'
Johnny Collins
CD
ONTCD2002
2000
Tracks:
Boys of Killybegs, The Centurion, Crossing The Water, No More Fish, She Stands On The Quay,
Too Far From She, I'm Going Home To Georgia, Jutland, Martin Luther King, Misty Mourne Shore,
The North Wall, Parting Song, Prince Of Peace, River Days, Smuggler's Song, Sailor Town.
Not before time, Johnny has just released a new CD. If you are quick, you can get your copy
from Johnny at The Falmouth Oyster Festival on 5th October or Cancale (Brittany) Festival on
7th/8th October or at its launch at Herga Folk Club on Monday 9th October.
Although not all of the tracks are maritime, nevertheless there is a definitely 'salty' flavour to it. This CD is a must.
Copies of this CD are available from
Chanty Cabin, or contact Johnny on:
Tel. No. +44(0) 181 866 1635
Fax. No. +44(0) 1923 245440
STRONTRACE
Johnny Collins & Jim Mageean (UK)
Cassette
Availability:The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
A side:
Randy Dandy, Blow The Man Down, Ranzo Ray, Poor Old Man, Roll the Old Chariot, Serafina.
B side:
Billy Boy, Roll the Cotton Down, Chicken on a Raft, Ja Ja Ja, Leave Her Johnny, Rolling Home, The Farewell Shanty.
Recorded live at the annual Strontrace Festival at Workum in Friesland, Holland.
COMING OF AGE
Johnny Collins & Jim Mageean (UK)
1996
CD
Availability:The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
Tracks:
Rio Grande, Bold Riley, General Taylor, Bully in the Alley, Hanging Johnny, Johnson Girls, Shawnee Town, John Cherokee, Roll Down, Rolling Up Rolling Down, Herzogin Cecilie, Clear the Track, Paddy Lay Back, Shantyman, John Dead, Haul Boys Haul, Blackbird Get Up, Julianna, Whaling Johnny, Stormalong, Rosianna.
21 shanties to celebrate 21 years of singing together. Recording made during concerts at International Shantyfestival Workum in 1992, 1993 and 1995.
SHANTIES AND SONGS OF THE SEA
Johnny Collins with Dave Webber and Pete Watkinson (UK)
1996
CD and cassette.
Availability:The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
Tracks:
Blow the Man Down(Flying Fish Sailor), Haul Boys Haul, Blood Red Roses, South Australia, Leave Her Johnny, Randy Dandy-O, Fire Marengo, Shallow Brown, Eliza Lee(The Bulgine Run), Goodbye Fare Thee Well, Maui, Old Billy Riley, Bold Reilly-O, Down the Bay to Julianna, The Wild Goose, Hard on the Beach Oar, Roll the Woodpile Down, Dogger Bank, Sailors’ Prayer, Farewell Shanty.
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SONGS OF THE SEA
Uffa Fox (UK)
LP
1960
E.M.I. Records - PMC 1112
A Side:
Life on the Ocean Wave, The Whaler, We Be Three Poor Mariners, Heaving Of The Lead, Bay Of Biscay, Tom Bowling, Hearts Of Oak.
B Side:
Australia, The Lass That Loved A Sailor, Tight Little Island, A-Roving, The Pilot,
Spanish Ladies, Rule Britannia.
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'SAILING BY'
Derek Gifford
CD
CRMCD050
2001
Tracks:
Shanghai Passage, Kent Keer & Lune, Old Maui, Wild Geese, Bosun's Chair, Valiant Sailor,
Aaron Manby, Last Man Leaving, Bright Star, Old Stan, Shantymen Bold, Anderson's Coast,
Leaky Ship, Goodbye to the Sea, Rockport Farewell, Shipping Forecast, Sailing By.
Copies of this CD are available from:
Chanty Cabin or contact:
Derek Gifford
Tel +44(0)1695 625097
MAINLY MARITIME
Derek Gifford (UK)
1996
Cassette
Availability: Derek Gifford, 22, Stoney Brow, Roby Mill, Up Holland, Lancashire WN8 0QE, England.
A side:
Benjamin Bowmaneer,Sailor, Little Boy Billee, Unfortunate Tailor, South Australia, Northwest Passage.
B side:
Haul on the Bowline, Solway Shore, Fishfinger Hunting, William Taylor, I’m Marching
Inland, Greenland Whale Fishery, Rolling Home.
Copies of this CD are available from:
Chanty Cabin or contact:
Derek Gifford
Tel +44(0)1695 625097
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SEA SONGS AND SHANTIES
Hanging Johnny (Plymouth, UK)
1994
Cassette
Availabity:Nic White
A side:
Hanging Johnny, Bonny Ship The Diamond, Bulgine Run, The Lifeboat Mona, Yarmouth Town,
Monday Morning, Rolling Home.
B side:
Bully in the Alley, Wild Goose, Old Maui, Poor Old Man, Ellen Vannin, John Kanaka, One
More Pull.
THE SEA QUELL
Hanging Johnny (Plymouth UK)
1996
Cassette
Availabity:Nic White
A side:
Sail Away Ladies, Chinese Bumboatman, Hooker John, Talcahuano Girls, Grey Funnel Line,
Shun the Drink, Pull Down Below, The Anti-Shanty.
B side:
Tiddy-Ay-Oh, Banks of Newfoundland, Tie 'Em Up, Rosieanna, Running Down to Cuba, Adieu
Sweet Lovely Nancy, Dance The Boatman, Boston Harbour, Shallow Brown.
TO PASS AWAY THE TIME...SHANTIES AND SONGS OF THE SEA
Hanging Johnny (Plymouth UK)
1998
CD & Cassette
Availabity:Nic White
Tracks:
Across the Western Ocean, Leave Her Johnny Leave Her, Billy Riley, Grey Goose Shanty, All
For Me Grog, Santiana, The Rape of the Mackerel Shoals, The Final Trawl, Combing the Mane,
Skipper Jan Riebec, My First Shipwreck at Sea, Swansea Town, One Hundred Years Ago, Venezuela,
On Board the Kangaroo, The Young Sailor Cut Down In His Prime, South Australia, Sailor's
Prayer, The Antoinette, Hills of Ille Au Haut.
WHIRR BIST HEADIN’ TO CABOT?
The Harry Brown Shantymen (Bristol, UK)
1995
Cassette
Availabity:Ian Greening
Tel. No. +44(0)117 961 0267 / +44 (0)7718 660492
A side:
The Matthew, Sammy’s Gone A-Sailing, The Julie Plante, Hartland Point, Ali Alo, Bound Away, Pill Pill, The Harry Brown, Rolling Down To Old Maui.
B side:
Santy Anna, Sail-Away, Pull For The Shore, Roll The Cotton, Time Ashore, The Juno, Paris
Here I Come, Greenland’s Icy Shore, Soon May The Wellerman Come.
THE BARQUE 'FAVELL' OF BRISTOL
The Harry Brown Shantymen (Bristol, UK)
Cassette
Availabity:Ian Greening
Tel. No. +44(0)117 961 0267 / +44 (0)7718 660492
Tracks:
Tow Rope Girls, The Barque 'Favell', Blood Red Roses, Sally Free and Easy, Shallow
Brown, Smugglers, Final Trawl, Hilo Man, Rio Grande, Trawling Trade, Old Moke, Lime
Scurvy, Rosabella, Leave 'Er Johnny, East Indiaman, Farewell Shanty.
SHIPSHAPE & HARRY FASHION
The Harry Brown Shantymen (Bristol, UK)
CD
Availabity:Ian Greening
Tel. No. +44(0)117 961 0267 / +44 (0)7718 660492
Tracks:
Paris here I come, Greenland's Icy Shore, Sammy's gone a-sailing, Shallow Brown, Tow Rope
Girls, The Barque 'Favell', Pull for the Shore, The Final Trawl, Rosabella, The 'Julie
Plantie', Time Ashore, Soon may the Wellerman come, Lime Scurvy, Santy Anna, Ilo Man, The
Trawling Trade, Rio Grande, Farewell Shanty.
ABOARD THE CUTTY SARK
Stan Hugill (UK)
LP (2 discs) Greenwich Village GVRX 207
UK (1979)
A side:
Introduction by Jim Mageean, Life before the mast, BLOW THE MAN DOWN, Hoisting the sails, calling on Jim and Johnny, The origins of ‘Town Ho!’, BOSTON TOWN HO.
B side:
NEW YORK GIRLS, Davy Jones and Fiddlers Green, John Masefield, Pubs along the ‘Highway’, RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY.
C side:
Origins of the forebitter, Smelling a ship and bagging a bunk, LOWLANDS, Keeping your position as a shanty man, Getting the stop knot on, The capstan, SHENANDOAH.
D side:
SANTY ANNA, leaving customs, carving food, Liverpool pantiles, carving tobacco, LEAVE HER JOHNNY LEAVE HER.
Recorded on board the Cutty Sark on the evening of Monday June 11th 1979, during the Greenwich Festival. Stan explains life at sea aboard a square rigger and is accompanied by Jim Mageean and Johnny Collins on Boston Town Ho and New York Girls.
A SALTY FORETOPMAN
Stan Hugill with Stormalong John, Liverpool.
Cassette & CD
UK (1989)
Availability: The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
A side:
Where Am I To Go, Girls of Dublin Town, Running Down To Cuba, Old Moke Pickin’ On A Banjo, Eight Bells, Roll Boys Roll, Pilots of Tiger Bay, Gals Of Chile, Golden Vanitee.
B side:
Heave Away Boys Heave Away, The Campanero, Jack All Alone, Pull Down Below, Aboard the Kangaroo, Haul Away Boys, The Anglesey.
CHANT DES MARINS ANGLAIS
Stan Hugill and Stormalong John, Liverpool.
Cassette
Availability: -Le Chasse-Maree/ArMen, France?
A side:
Blow the Man Down, The Balaena, South Australia, Santiana, Lowlands, John Kanaka, Serafina, Admiral Benbow, Rolling Down to Old Maui, Let the Bulgine run, Good bye fare ye well, Girls of Dublin Town.
B side:
Sam’s gone away, The drunken sailor, Strike the bell, Roll the old chariot, Hieland laddie, Bulley in the Alley, The Black Ball Line, Randy dandy O, Paddy lay back, Rio Grande.
Live recordings at Douarnenez 88 and Fete du chant de marin, Paimpol 1989-1991
SAILING DAYS
Stan Hugill with Stormalong John, Liverpool.
Cassette
1993
Availability: The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
A side:
A-rollin down the river, Way down in Dixie, Whaling Johnny, Round the Bay of Mexico, Shenandoah, Radcliffe Highway(1), We’re all bound to go.
B side:
The fireship, The Indian lass, The leaky ship, Radcliffe Highway(2), Bosun’s Alphabet, Sacramento.
Recorded in the Welsh village of Aberdovey during an informal session to celebrate Stan’s 85th birthday.
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KEELHAULIN’
The Keelers ( Newcastle UK)
Cassette
Availability:The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
A side:
Plains of Mexico, Blow Boys Blow, Susiana, Randy Dandy, Billy Boy, Sacramento, Down Trinidad, Pull down below, Chile Girls, Mobile Bay, Johnson Gals, Come Roll Me Over, Rise Me Up, Royal Artillery Man.
B side:
Bully in the Alley, John Kanaka, John Cherokee, Wild Goose Nation, Lowlands, Bottle-O, Sally Brown, Blackbird Get Up, Fire Marengo, Goodbye Fare-Thee-Well, Shallow Brown, Rosianna.
SONGS OF THE SEA
The Keelers ( Newcastle UK)
Cassette.
A side:
Rio Grande, Donkey Riding, Billy Boy, Blow the Man Down, New York Girls, Boney, Drunken Sailor.
B side:
I’m Bound Away, The Keel Row, Bobby Shaftoe, Noah’s Ark, Pay Me the Money Down, Shenandoah, Roll the Old Chariot.
FAREWELL TO THE MASTER
The Keelers ( Newcastle UK)
Cassette.
Availability:The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
A side:
Farewell to the Master, Shiny-O, Tiddy High-O, Blood Red Roses, The Gal with the Blue Dress, Can’t Ye Hilo, Hooker John, Paddy Doyle’s Boots, John Dameray, Haul on the Bowline, Dance the Boatman, Paddy Lay Back.
B side:
The Gals o’ Dublin Town, Clear the Track, The Old Moke Pickin’ on a Banjo, Fire Down Below, Packet Ship, The Codfish Shanty, Heave Away Me Johnnies, The Blackball Line, Running Down To Cuba, Haul Away Boys Haul Away, Sally Rackett, Rolling Down to Old Maui.
This album is dedicated to the memory of Stan Hugill, who died on May 13th 1992 in his 86th year.
ON THE NORTH SEA GROUND
The Keelers (Newcastle UK)
CD
1998
Availability:The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
Tracks:
The Merry Fellows, Fundy Bay, One Miner's Life, Mollymauk, The Foreshift, John Dead, On The North Sea Ground, Raise 'Em, Twenty Long Weeks, Depth of My Ego, Guard Yer Man Well,Working Man, Row On Row On, So Long.
On this new recording, The Keelers have extended their repertoire to include non sea
songs. However, it is well worth buying just for their rendition of Bob Watson's song
'Mollymauk' as well as two C. Fox Smith's poems - On The North Sea Ground and So Long -
which Alan Fitzsimmons has put to music. They are even better than his earlier excellent
work recorded as Pinch of Salt
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'Where Seagulls Dare'
Landlocked (England).
CD
1999
Availability: Vin Rafter, 30, Axholme Road, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, ENGLAND
DN2 4AW, Tel. +44(0) 1302 325398.
Email: Vin Rafter
Tracks:
John Damaray, Serafina, The Last Shanty, Haul on the Bowline, Sam's Gone A-sailing,
Young Gals, Ranzo Ray, Liverpool Judies, Blood Red Roses, Grey Funnel Line, Cheerily
Man, Ya Ya Ya, Boston Harbour, Randy Dandy, Row On Row On, Raise Em, Ronnie, Lee
Fore Brace, The Confidents, Sam Hall, Thirteen Pence a Day.
HOME AND DRY
Landlocked (Doncaster, UK)
1995
Availability:The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
Cassette
A side:
Fire Meringo, Johnson Girls, Skipper Jan Rebeck, Lowlands, South Australia, Sunny Dor, Shiny O, Hooker John, Rise Me Up, Rosianna.
B side:
Bully in the Alley, Old Moke, Bound Away, Tiddy Hi O, Roll Me Over, Billy Reilly, Shallow Brown, Banks of Sacramento, Randy Dandy, Farewell Shanty.
SEA SICK AGAIN
Landlocked (Doncaster, UK)
1997
Availability:The Chantey Cabin
Ken & Jan Lardner, 69 Ribble Avenue, Freckleton, Preston, LANCS PR4 1RU.
Cassette
A side:
Fire Down Below, Cheer'ly Man, Yellar Girls, John Kanaka, Roseabella, Blow Boys Blow, Sally Racket, Rio Grande, The Last Shanty.
B side:
Jamboree, Haul Away, Santiana, Bulgine Run, Ranzo Ray, Essequibo River, Noah's Ark, Rolling Up Rolling Down, Reuben Ranzo, Paddy Lay Back, One More Pull.
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