Whaler out of New Bedford and Other Songs of the Whaling Era

Folkways Records– FS 3850

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1962
Genre: Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen
Style: Folk, Soundtrack & Musicals
[Tracklist]
A1 Whaler Out of New Bedford (23:04)
B1 The Fitting Out (3:40)
B2 Boney (1:16)
B3 The Bark Gay Head (2:45)
B4 The Boston-Come-All-Ye (3:21)
B5 The Coast of Peru (3:27)
B6 Mary Ann (2:23)
B7 Desolation (2:56)
B8 A Hundred Years on the Eastern Shore (1:53)
B9 Homeward Bound (2:12)
[Credits]
Peggy Seeger (banjo/guitar/autoharp/vocals) Ewan MacColl (vocals) A.L. Lloyd (vocals) Dave Swarbrick (fiddle) Alf Edwards (concertina/oracina) Louis Killen, Charles Parker, Joe Higgins, John Reavey and Ian Logan (chorus)
[Notes]
Before photography, painted panoramas were often the only images the general public saw of distant lands. One such panorama from 1848, of "wondrous scenes of whaling and faraway islands," inspired a movie about the whaling industry; this album provides the musical score, in addition to familiar whaling songs set in New England, along the coast of South America, and on the Eastern Shore. Liner notes include images of the panorama, background information on whaling, and notes and lyrics for each song.