Katie Melua - If You Were A Sailboat
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The song “Single Handed Sailor” by Dire Straits is an ode to Sir Francis Chichester. Sir Francis Chichester (September 17, 1901 — August 26, 1972), aviator and sailor, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, and the fastest circumnavigator, in nine months and one day overall.
A ballad of a sailor doomed to forever go to sea in the worst job in the world for a sailor. Whaling was hard dirty and smelly. You only became a sailer on board a whaling ship if you were scraping the bottom of the barrel.
This song is from the album “steady as she goes” by Louis Killen, Jeff Warner,
Gerret Warner & Fud Benson
Not nautical, I just like it. Parental Advisory, NSFW
Music for a Friday, with mermaids even.
Hang in there, it takes a while to get good.
The Mermen, San Francisco’s own contemporary surf gods, perform “To be Naked and French is Always Hard” at the LEAP Sandcastle Classic at Ocean Beach, while a guy with no self-consciousness [and a Tilley Hat] shows his moves.
Gerard Heidgerken of Bilgemunky.com and Bilgemunky Radio will be delivering a multi-media presentation at the Chicago History Museum on Saturday, February 23rd as part of the 2008 Chicago Maritime Festival. The presentation is titled “Pirate-Core: Sea Shanties in the 21st Century”, and will cover the evolution and current state of this contemporary spin on the the traditional sea shanty.
Gerard is one of many presenters at the 2008 Chicago Maritime Festival. Tickets to attend the festival are $10 (free for kids 12 and under) and may be purchased online or at the door. The festival is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exact time for “Pirate-Core: Sea Shanties in the 21st Century” is not yet scheduled.
For more information, please visit www.chicagomaritimefestival.org
This is the more traditional “Mermaid” as covered by many shantymen, and is a completely different song from the Great Blue Sea song we presented yesterday. From An Album of Street Literature, A. Ryle and Co. (1800? London?). Thanks, Gavin, for the find.
Newfoundland’s own Great Big Sea perform the traditional ballad “The Mermaid” (no, not the one about the sinking ship, it’s the one that addresses the mermaid problem). NSL earlier posted the cover art from their album The Hard and the Easy here.
You’ve probably seen this video before. What I didn’t know was that this song is available in so many different variations. There’s the backwards version, the karaoke version, versions in Icelandic, German, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, an anime version, a slow version, a fast version, a World of Warcraft version, Taupins version, a Rogue Gallery version, and a Phoenix Wright version, plus many more once you get to YouTube.
Shamelessly lifted from the Presurfer
“ The Swinging Sailor of Perryman” is a jolly calypso tune by pirate trop-rock band Captain Quint, which I first heard (where else?) on Bilgemunky. The song tells the story of John Clark Monk, a skipper who when dying at sea requested his loyal crew to not let his feet touch dry land. His body was therefore suspended by chains in its tomb, and his burial chamber flooded with rum, or so the legend goes. His tomb is at Spesutia Church in Perryman, Maryland. As a native Marylander, I’m proud.
Detailed story from Weird Maryland by Matt Lake, Mark Moran
>> Captain Quint website, with audio clips
>> More than you want to know about who all is buried in the cemetary
The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first musical pipe organs that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside. Underneath, there are 35 musically tuned tubes with whistle openings on the sidewalk. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and – depending on the size and velocity of the wave – musical chords are played. The waves create random harmonic sounds.
This masterpiece of acoustics and architecture was created by expert Dalmatian stone carvers and architect Nikola Basic in 2005, who recently received the European Prize for Urban Public Space for this project. Many tourists come to listen to this unique aerophone, and enjoy unforgettable sunsets with a view of nearby islands. Famed director Alfred Hitchcock said that the most beautiful sunset in the world can be seen from precisely this spot on the Zadar quay. That was how he described it after his visit to Zadar, a visit he remembered throughout his life by the meeting of the sinking sun and the sea.
Watch and listen:
Link to OddMusic.com, via The Presurfer
Flashback from July 30.
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