Songs about Chesapeake Bay?
maco...@vt.edu
Does anyone know any songs that have the Bay as a topic?
Thanks in advance.
Peter Fischman
maco...@vt.edu wrote:
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> Does anyone know any songs that have the Bay as a topic?
> Thanks in advance.
Sorry, no specific titles, but check out Magpie and The Boarding Party
recordings.
Best,
peterf
Larry Blumenfeld
maco...@vt.edu wrote:
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> Does anyone know any songs that have the Bay as a topic?
> Thanks in advance.
There's a CD that was put together a few years ago for the benefit of The
Chesapeake Bay Trust that's nothing BUT songs about the Bay, with people
like Mary Chapin Carpenter, Magpie, Fred Koller, The Hard Travellers, and
more - 12 songs in all. Don't know if it's still around, but it was
available on CD for $16.50 or cassette for $11.50 from:
One Million Marylanders
Office Of The Governor
State House
Annapolis, MD 21401
The company that produced it is Airshow at 703-642-9035. A call to them
might help.
Happy trails,
Larry B.
Kathi Bender
maco...@vt.edu wrote in article <32A734...@vt.edu>...
> Does anyone know any songs that have the Bay as a topic?
> Thanks in advance.
Lets see, there's:
- Bound for Baltimore (I kissed her on the cheek and the crew began to roar
.
- Bound for Baltimore (A slaver outruns the law in a Baltimore clipper -
fun eh?)
- A Hundred Years Ago (Featuring Bully John from Baltimore ... I knew him
well on the Eastern Shore ...)
From the Boarding Party's two albums (Fair Winds and a Following Sea and
Tis Our Sailing Time both on Folk Legacy - plug, plug)
- Go It Jerry - A round from an early 19th Century drinking society in
Baltimore
- The Cruiser Baltimore
- The Shanghaied Dredger (about oystering on the Eastern Shore) This is
the only traditional song the Boarding Party could find that actually is
centered on the Bay. If anyone finds more, spread the wealth!
An Annapolis-based group called Crab Alley produced at least one tape with
wonderful Bay Songs - particullary "Ladies of the Bay" and a song about the
Pride of Baltimoreby Janey McNealy (SP?)
One of the "save the bay" organizations (might be Chesapeake Bay
Foundation) produced a CD compendium of tradition and contemporary folk
style songs about the Bay - Includes cuts from Schooner Fare and The
Boarding Party.
This is all that springs to mind.
maco...@vt.edu wrote in article <32A734...@vt.edu>...
M. Garvey
It seems to me, and I could be mistaken since I focused on other songs on
the CD more...that in Gordon Bok's Schooners CD there was a song about the
decline of oystering in a town....I'm not at all sure though...anyway, it
was a great song, I don't think written by him, about how a family had
been very involved in the town and now were pretty much gone...
mg
(that's about how well I listen to lyrics...)
Brett Weiss
Schooner Fare did a piece called "Chesapeake Morning" on their "For the
Times" CD.
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Susan Lawlor
There was an album released this year called "Chesapeake
Scenes" The Bay in Words & Music". No label, but the j-card
says Produced by Tom HcHugh, 22519 Crouch's Lane, Rock Hall, MD
21661 410-639-7943. Catalog number for the tape in CS401CS.
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Jeremiah Cronin
Dramtreeo, a group out of Norfolk, Virginia, has a number
of Chesapeake Bay related tunes on their albums:
"Take Your Pay", about the sinking of the collier Marine Electric,
and "The Ghost Ship Morphy", about a ghost ship of the northern
bay, are on the Dramtreeo album. "Waterman's Song" and "Big Fish,
Little Fish", on the 3 album. "Parts Per Million" on the Storm album.
All available from Southern Branch Music (757.623.8820). Or you can call up
the Outer Green Records (Schooner Fare) web site.
Bay Folk is a great album, with bay tunes by Tom Paxton, Mary
Chapin Carpenter, Boarding Party, Crab Alley, Schooner Fare, Pete
Kennedy, Dramtreeo, Magpie and a few others I can't remember right
now. I think it's being re-released in 97, perhaps with a reunion
concert in Baltimore.
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