Singing the Fishing

Artist: Ewan MacColl With Charles Parker & Peggy Seeger Label: Topic Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 714822080323 EAN: 0714822080323 ASIN: B00000JG3V Release Date: 1999-07-13

Tracks:

1. Up Jumped The Herring, The King Of The Sea...
2. Come All You Gallant Fishermen...
3. It's Up With The Dawn...
4. Years Ago, You Started Very Young...
5. I Started To Go To The Sea In 1892...
6. So It's Off With A Boiler Full Of Steam...
7. When The Wind Is Freshening...
8. What Shall It Profit A Fisherman...
9. It's Busk Ye, My Lads, Get You Up On The Deck...
10. There's No Feeling Like Coming Into Harbour...
11. Came A'ye Fisher Lassies...
12. Up Jumped The Herring...
13. Cwa, Ye Herring Fisherman...
14. A' The Week Your Man's Away...
15. Wi' Our Nets And Gear...
16. Our Ships Are Small...

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Customer Reviews:

One of the finest radio programs ever made, now on CD.......1999-06-04

A beautiful recording to send shivers up your spine. Much based on the life of Sam Larner, who tells of how he started on board a sailing ship when aged about 12 in the 1880's.

The blending of actuality, speech and song has never been surpassed. The songs were written based on interviews and speech patterns of those interviewed, and have a real feeling of "traditional" song. They are not just incidental, but really help the action along. "Shoals of Herring" is perhaps the most famous song from the programme, but all the songs are pure imagery.

A fine document, and one which no one interested in recording techniques should leave unheard.

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