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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.
The piece was used in a Yardley commercial and was originally listed on the album's master tape as "TV Jingle" until a friend of Hancock's sister came up with the new name. [4] In the liner notes for the Maiden Voyage album, Hancock states that the composition was an attempt to capture "the splendor of a sea-going vessel on its maiden voyage".
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The first verse refers to God the Father fixing limits for the sea as described in Job 38:8-11 and Psalm 104:6-9. The second verse refers to Jesus' miracles of calming the storm in Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:35:41, and Luke 8:22-25 and walking on the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Mark 6:45-53, Matthew 14:22-34, and John 6:15-21.
The standard tuning, without the top E string attached. Alternative variants are easy from this tuning, but because several chords inherently omit the lowest string, it may leave some chords relatively thin or incomplete with the top string missing (the D chord, for instance, must be fretted 5-4-3-2-3 to include F#, the tone a major third above D).
Masters of the Sea may refer to: Masters of the Sea, a 1922 Austrian film directed by Alexander Korda; Masters of the Sea, a 1994 Singapore television drama series ...
The author of the notes for Sharp Sea Shanties writes, "It too has an amorous encounter with anatomical progression but there, to put it simply, all similarity ends. The presence of a common entertaining theme line does not prove a connection except possibly in the idea itself."
A lovely rendition of ‘Song of the Sabia’ finds Sakamoto hammering out chords that tie the song to the Chopin E minor prelude, and a nicely swinging ‘Bonita’ has sounds of the sea overdubbed." [1] A BBC review by Nick Reynolds claimed, "this remarkable album reinterprets Antonio Jobim's songs in a quietly radical way. It points up his ...