Coope Boyes & Simpson: Three Ships (3 mins) Album: Twenty -four seven No Masters NMCD20
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Blue Murder: Three Day Millionaire (2 mins 13 secs) Album: No One Stands Alone Topic TSCD537
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Leo Brouwer: Some Old Salty (2 mins 51 secs) Album: Once in a Blue Moon Topic TSCD478
BACKGROUND
These 3 songs represent many memories I share with members of The Waterson family, the writers and some of the performers of these songs, as we all originate from, as someone from Doncaster once kindly pointed out 'That fish shop 50 miles up railway siding! He meant of course, Kingston upon Hull, or Hull, or even 'ull.
'Three Ships' is Mike Waterson's achingly poignant tribute to the three trawlers and 58 crew lost in Feb.' 68. off Iceland. [6000 fisherman from Humberside have been lost in the past 100 years]
On a lighter note Mikes '3 Day Millionaire' sums up the life and ambitions of the trawlerman.
Finally the late Lal Waterson's song gives us a glimpse of the strange world of 'ull in the 50's/60 's. ['head like a toy shop'!? I've no idea either!]
COMMENTS
Excellent. I'd have been tempted by the Doncaster-based sea shanty group Landlocked though. Chris, Rotherham
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