The American folk revival group The Almanac Singers were recruited by Alan Lomax to record several shanties for the 1941 album Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads. |
A raging squall knocked him off his feet time and again, but Lennon persisted at the wheel, singing old Liverpool sea chanteys and shouting at the gods. |
Sea chanteys have been sung throughout the sea-faring Omanis' history. |
At Copley, he also exhibited a continuous 80 slide projection, coupled with an audiotape, showing a nine-person chorus singing sea chanteys with a pianist accompanying them. |
Such chanteys will ring out from the decks of two historic ships at the recently designated National Maritime Historical Park at Hyde Street Pier. |
Hundreds of tapes and records preserve sailors' tales and chanteys. |