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In 2013, the Wellington Sea Shanty Society released a version of the song on their album Now That's What I Call Sea Shanties Vol. 1. [3] A particularly well-known rendition of the song was made by the Bristol-based a cappella musical group the Longest Johns on their collection of nautical songs Between Wind and Water in 2018. [16]
Spanish Ladies. James E. Buttersworth 's The Clipper Ship Flying Cloud off the Needles, Isle of Wight (1859–60) " Spanish Ladies " (Roud 687) is a traditional British naval song, typically describing a voyage from Spain to the Downs from the viewpoint of ratings of the Royal Navy. [1] Other prominent variants include an American variant ...
Sea shanty, Contemporary folk. Length. 4:45. Label. Fogarty's Cove Music. Songwriter (s) Stan Rogers. "Northwest Passage" is one of the best-known songs by Canadian musician Stan Rogers. An a cappella song, it features Rogers alone singing the verses, with Garnet Rogers, David Alan Eadie and Chris Crilly harmonizing with him in the chorus.
Often described as a "walkaway" or "runaway chorus" or "stamp and go" sea shanty, the song features on the soundtrack of the 2019 film Fisherman's Friends. [1] The chorus comes from the 19th century Salvation Army hymn, 'Roll the old chariot'. Each line is repeated three times and describes something that the singing sailors would miss while at ...
From upbeat tunes like “Chicken Fried” by Zac Brown Band, to stirring anthems like “God Bless the U.S.A.” by Lee Greenwood, there's a song for every mood and occasion. “Party in the U.S ...
There is a version in Icelandic, called "Fulla ferð Santíanó" ("Full Ahead Santiano"), a seaman's story about sailing home after days at sea, written by Siggi Björns an Icelandic musician and an ex-fisherman. This version was recorded and realised on a CD with a band called"Æfing" from a small fishing town, Flateyri, in the Icelandic ...
Cooped-up sailors who felt the same way on long ocean journeys broke up the tedium with work songs called sea shanties. TikTok helped sea shanties surge into the mainstream. People began using the ...
The song was written by Richard Creagh Saunders (1809–1886), who enlisted in the navy as a Schoolmaster on the 11th of July, 1839. [1] It was recorded in Charles Harding Firth's Naval Songs and Ballads (1908) in a slightly different form from the one popularized in cinema, where its opening verse has been omitted, and with quatrain stanzas instead of couplets.