List Price: £16.99 (GBP)
- Lowest New Price: £8.69
- Lowest Used Price: £8.38
- Total New: 15
- Total Used: 4
- Total Collectible: 0
- Total Refurbished: 0
- Artist : Jerry Bryant & Starboard Mess
- Binding : Audio CD
- EAN : 0090998500125
- Label : Ess.a.Y
- Manufacturer : Ess.a.Y
- Number Of Discs : 1
- Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
- Package Quantity : 1
- Product Group : Music
- Publisher : Ess.a.Y
- Release Date : 2000-08-15
- SKU : 77782
- Studio : Ess.a.Y
- UPC : 090998500125
If Roast Beef of Old England isn't enough to spawn a dose of contact scurvy, many other of these two dozen salty tunes will set the boat a-rocking. Treasures like "A Jolly Sailor's True Description of a Man-of-War" and "Drops of Brandy" detail life among British seamen of the early 1800s without dredging up too much of the usual pirates, shipwrecks or mutiny. It is a historical document of the regular life at sea, after all, inspired by the British Navy novels of Patrick O'Brian, with intentions to anchor the writing in the ordinary sounds and stories of those fictionalised sea-faring times. Glad fiddle, fife, and Jerry Bryant's humble six-man choral crew Starboard Mess spill the beans in suitable fashion without a sailor's colourful vocabulary. They supply the "yo ho ho" and annotations, you bring the rum and black powder. --Ian Christe
- Amazon.co.uk Review
Tracks:
Disc 1
- 1: Spanish Ladies
- 2: A Jolly Sailor's True Description Of A Man-Of-War
- 3: Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy
- 4: St. Patrick's Day
- 5: Warlike Seamen
- 6: The First Of June
- 7: Drops Of Brandy
- 8: Roast Beef Of Old England
- 9: Heart Of Oak
- 10: Nancy Dawson
- 11: Ben Backstay
- 12: Sailors' Hornpipe/Rickett's Hornpipe
- 13: Bay Of Biscay-o
- 14: The Battle Of The Nile
- 15: Nelson's Victory/Hull's Victory
- 16: The Banks Of The Nile/Sailor's Cravat
- 17: A New Sea Song (Sweethearts And Wives)
- 18: Pleasant And Delightful
- 19: Captain Barton's Distress On The Lichfield
- 20: Chevy Chase
- 21: The Shannon And The Chesapeake
- 22: Distressed Men-Of-War
- 23: Sailor's Jacket
- 24: Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate
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