Ewan Maccoll / Peggy Seeger / Charles Parker

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Singing The Fishing

Ewan Maccoll / Peggy Seeger / Charles Parker

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Catalogue Number
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803
Number of Discs
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1
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CD

Product Description

Britain's herring fishing communities are the subject of this, perhaps the best-remembered and most widely heard of all the radio-ballads. It was broadcast in more than 80 countries, and won the 1960 Prix d'Italia for radio documentary. (First received: 5/2/02)

Track List   

  • 01. Up Jumped the Herring, the King of the Sea
  • 02. Come All You Gallant Fishermen
  • 03. It's Up with the Dawn
  • 04. Years Ago, You Started Very Young
  • 05. I Started to Go to the Sea in 1892
  • 06. So It's Off with a Boiler Full of Steam
  • 07. When the Wind Is Freshening
  • 08. What Shall It Profit a Fisherman
  • 09. It's Busk Ye, My Lads, Get You Up on the Deck
  • 10. There's No Feeling Like Coming Into Harbour
  • 11. Came A'ye Fisher Lassies
  • 12. Up Jumped the Herring
  • 13. Cwa, Ye Herring Fisherman
  • 14. A' the Week Your Man's Away
  • 15. Wi' Our Nets and Gear
  • 16. Our Ships Are Small

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