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The album was an unexpected hit, quickly selling over 125,000 copies and eventually going multi-platinum, becoming the most popular nature recording in history. [8] [11] Sales from the album benefited the Whale Fund of the Wildlife Conservation Society, then known as the New York Zoological Society. [12]
Roger Searle Payne (January 29, 1935 – June 10, 2023) was an American biologist and environmentalist famous for his 1967 discovery (with Scott McVay) of whale song among humpback whales. Payne later became an important figure in the worldwide campaign to end commercial whaling .
Songs of the Humpback Whale may refer to Whale vocalization, sounds are used by whales for different kinds of communication; Songs of the Humpback Whale, a 1970 album produced by bio-acoustician Roger Payne; Songs of the Humpback Whale, a 1992 novel by Jodi Picoult
Another milestone was hearing Roger Payne's 1970 album, Songs of the Humpback Whale, which popularized the whale songs, and was perhaps the greatest single contribution to awakening humanity to whales. The grandfather of all natural sound recordings, and a bestseller, it touched the hearts of millions of people throughout the world.
It is one of Earth's most haunting sounds - the "singing" of baleen whales like the humpback, heard over vast distances in the watery realm. Baleen whales - a group that includes the blue whale ...
Harry Robertson: Whale Chasing Men: Songs of Whaling in Ice and Sun. Music For Pleasure Australia MFP 8272, 1971. Marian ("Marion") Henderson and Alex Hood sing lead on some tracks. Declan Affley: Declan Affley - LP and cassette, TAR 020, 1987 - includes Robertson's "Ship Repairing Men" and "The Antarctic Fleet" Evan Mathieson: Harry's Legacy ...
[11]: 54 with "The Humpback Whale" from the album as the first track on the first CD in the set and "Clyde Water" from Game Set Match as track seven on the seventh CD. On 5 August 2010, after an absence of 28 years, Jones made a return to the stage. He appeared at an event dedicated to his music at Sidmouth Folk Week. Jones sang three songs ...
It was released as a single only in Japan in April 1978 by EMI Music Japan. Written by Bush and produced by Andrew Powell, the song is a tribute to Lindsay Kemp, her mime teacher. "Moving" opens with whale song sampled from Songs of the Humpback Whale, an LP including recordings of whale vocalisations made by Dr. Roger S. Payne.