Sea Shanties Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2018
- The story of Britain's maritime past has a hidden history of shanties and sea songs, and choirmaster Gareth Malone has been travelling Britain's coast to explore this unique heritage.
From dedicated traditionalists to groundbreaking recording artists, Gareth meets a variety of sea-singers from across the country. 
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2021: The year of the sea shanty
What a time to be alive
This year is better than expected
I just don’t like how people are just following a trend but to those who actually love them cheers to them
No it was 2020 so Isolated people were
Agreed, a time for unity alongst the bois
One time I was at Walmart in the middle of the night and I witnessed some employees moving the shelves around and singing a song about rolling back the shelves in propper sea shanty fashion. I don't think that the spirit of sea shanties will ever die because when people are doing work that requires a rythum together than singing what happens.
walmart shanties
Shelving shanties, how awesome is that? Thanks for telling that story.
omg that’s amazing
Wish you had recorded it!!!
@@avalondreaming1433 so do I! But I didn't want them to be disturbed or think I was narcing on them to walmart
"They have since gone out of fashion"
People in 2021: *no*
Ayyyyy mate
3years later back in fashion babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Finally ..the 21st century produces some decent music !
Nope, tik tok has spoilt them for me with their awful autotuning. Shanties should be sung in the pubs and on the seas. Not staring at your phone..
@@andym9571 I kikkkkk
I'm a deckhand on the Mississippi, and I listen to sea shanties every single day. I believe that they should be kept alive in every seafaring country. Keep a singin' ye salty dogs!
God bless you and your crew your doing the lords work
"Songs that have since fallen out of fashion..."
Black Flag: Hold my rum!
ShantyTok 2021: Hold our Grogs!
I too fell in love with the songs thanks to old movies and black flag. But I think they should make more games like these and try to use historical accuracy by playing them according to tasks being done too.
Black Flag was a masterpiece indeed and for me the most enjoyable part was sailing with the shanties. I think i did not fast travel once😅
@@frederikkfoglfrey8664 same here, I even got on nerves of my friends telling them to listen to the songs ha ha
@@Belznis it was the first game i played on PS4 and first play through was even on PS3. Crazy how time runs... would like to play it on PS5 again
I teared up a little when I heard the captain’s voice singing... It’s just so incredible that it wasn’t lost, isn’t it? It still exists in the Library of Congress because some man in the 1920s recognized the captain was part of a bygone era, and knew it was important to record even just a bit of what he knew. And even thought both men could have been lost to time and forgotten, the wax recording ended up in the Library of Congress and saved. Amazing.
I was just listening to this to pass the time, but when he started singing Away to Rio, I laughed out loud. I was on a cruise on the USS Wasp going around the tip of South America. During our crossing the equator ceremony, I sang sea shanties for the rest of the crew, and one of them was Rio Grande. Great stuff.
But did you mispronounce "Rio" the way it is supposed to be?
I got addicted to shanties when I first saw Jaws and heard Quint singing Spanish Ladies. AC4 Black Flag was a godsend to teach me new ones, I would just sail around to run through the playlist constantly ever toggling them off. I'm pleased that the younger generation has discovered them and introduced me to the Wellerman, being a NZ shanty, I never heard of it.
Shanties and traditional music will never die, so long as there are people who can pass them to successive generations. Those songs reverberate in the hearts of some folks around the globe.
"[Sea shanties have] since fallen out of fashion..."
2021: *ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI! ME BOYS, ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI! WE'RE HOMEWARD BOUND FROM THE ARCTIC GROUND, ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI!*
And we don’t give a damn when we drink our rum with the girls of old Maui
XD YES!!!
My mother's family is from Nova Scotia. I grew up hearing a lot of these songs growing up.
I live on the east coast of New Brunswick and I have heard these songs every week for 12 years that I’ve been alive.
I went to the Gaelic College on Cape Breton as a kid (long ago) and we sang waulking songs - I think waulking songs and shanties both fall under the rubric of work songs, and I imagine there was probably influence back and forth. I'm glad the traditions are still alive.
In Newfoundland too the best Canadian music is from the Maritimes
I'm grateful to historians and musicians like Gareth Malone and these great singers who are documenting these songs.that could easily be lost forever.
2021 has ensured they will live on the internet forever no worries
I absolutely love shanties
Well good time to listen
You have exquisite taste
@@genericinterneter hahaha I'm abt 6years into shanties
Despite being written by a Canadian, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has become Michigan’s unofficial state song and ode to the Great Lakes and the men on the ships these inland seas. That and Stan Rogers “White Squall” have become modern “lake shanties” for the Great Lakes
I love shanties cuz you're not just singing songs, you're singing history
Something else to remember while listening to all the new versions of these songs, is that it would have been a vast array of ages of men singing them, from those just old enough to be on board, all the way up to the career sailors who'd been aboard for years. Its one of the reasons i love the ensemble shanties off tiktok, it brings a massive array together
English Seaside town lad here, moved to Calgary by some strange twist of fate. Oh how I miss the sea. I wish I were sailing and singing shanties with the bois.
A good bass really brings the group together.
I believe its the most underrated music in the world, because it just completly influenced the whole actual music univers and pop culture. Everything was already there. They just created the modern music structure. So I appreciate they took some time to speak about this music culture.
"Songs that have since fallen out of fashion"
2021: Hold my beer.
Hold my rum
Im from Hungary, and i can't stop listening to shanties ever since black flag introduced me to them. There is something in them that i can't find in today's music.
I'm half-expecting to see The Longest John in this doco.
Please Dear God, NO ! They sound very pretty, but the traditional groups heard here are much more representative of the genre.
@@kitsiewr what's wrong with the longest John's? You do realise they performed with Cornish group Fisherman's friends and have been performing folk songs and sea shantys for donkeys years.. before either got 'trendy' last week
@@kitsiewr no matter if it sounds "pretty" or not. They are part of the genre whether you like it or not, music doesn't need any more gate keepers, please sit down and let people enjoy what they want to enjoy.
I completely agree, both groups are great shanty singers and I have a lot of love for them both. Personally I prefer fishermen's friends because they feel more genuine. If you ever go to port Issac and listen to them then you'll realise just how beautiful sea shanties really are.
@@joeanthony2875 groups like fisherman's friends and Kimbers men are genuine sailer/fisherman (hence why the human brain tells you its more authentic) The longest John's do hail from fishing families though
38:35 delighted me! You could tell that the pink-clad Maggie's song took blue-clad Maggie right back to those fine old days of friendship and youth. What a wonderful moment to capture!
it is fun that these kinds of songs are really making a resurgence in our culture and more people are singing them for every day.
I made my own sea shantie playlist on spotify just to accompany me when i start my new job at a ship yard, wish me luck boys
good luck, i'm sure you'll make friends!
Best of Canadian luck to you!
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have now gotten roughly 60 negative answers over the last 4 months and i'm seriously running out of companies to contact.
Thank you so much for making this wonderful program. I've been participating in shanty sings since I moved to the US Pacific NW and learning about so many different kinds of shanties and sea songs was so much fun. I especially liked learning more about the fish wives and gutting girls. While on a trip to Scotland, my hostess's fiance took us to the Fish Wives' Museum and it was a revelation. Prior to that time I'd only heard of fish wives as loud scolding women, never as the ladies who kept their families together doing Herculean jobs while their husbands were at sea. I also especially enjoyed the Snow Shoveling Shanty story of the rescue of the stranded fishermen by their fellow citizens in the grip of a blizzard. I wish there was a CD available, or perhaps a songbook, for other lovers of shanties to enjoy the music honored by the documentary.
I will single-handedly defeat covid through the power of sea shanties, this documentary, and Nelson's Blood.
Wouldn't do you any harm...
No you won’t - wear a mask and get vaccine.
Great doco mate. Kimber's Men and Fisherman's Friends are two of the biggest name's in the sea shanty community at present. Fisherman's Friends have a recording contract with Universal Music and are turning out great stuff in the studio which is immaculately produced and captures the authenticity of their performances to a tee. So the genre is very much alive in my opinion. And anyone who's ever been treated to a live rendition of a sea shanty group in full harmony will testify how beautiful and provocative this kind of music is. I also think Jim McGeehan from Tynemouth nails it when he says that sea shanty's are true folk music, but sadly a lot of the folk movement has forgotten the sea shanty tradition, or at least it is probably not as prevalent in folk music these days as it should be. "These children.. being introduced to it this way.. you never know, when they get older - middle aged - they'll remember all that... and they may try doing it themselves..." - timeless and cross-cultural statement.
Thanks , to Scotsman, Nathan Evans for reviving the Sea Shanty 'The Wellerman' which went viral on TikTok .Amazing to see how many people joined in!!
His version brought me here
'for reviving the Sea Shanty'...it never died, it's always been there. There are groups that have been around for ages that only sing Sea Shantys and sea songs.
@@MK_2023. it wasn't popular at all. So yes, he did revive it.
@@yourbore I didn't say it was popular, I said it has always been there. Although depending on where you live in the world it can be more prominent and well known. So no, he didn't revive it.
@@MK_2023. he actually did...he put it on the charts instead of an old man choir where only their family go to see them. So single handedly he revived them. When is the last time a sea shanty was on the tip five on apply music, Spotify and other streaming platforms? Thats right. Never. He made it popular. They were there...yea, but he put them in the charts.
South Australia here LOL that roped me in
definitely one of the toughest groups of people in history, no doubt about it
Those songs for heroes are remarkable, as a country we really should make more of them. Would be a fantastic way to keep history alive, to inspire the next generation and bind people together. Wonderful stuff.
This documentary is about to pop off!!
I've always loved these and I'm so happy that they are having another moment. Like all classic folk songs, they are timeless.
It's 2:00 in South Florida and I just got done watching this wonderful documentary. What a wonderful piece of work, thank you for that.
Thank you for sharing this seafaring documentary. The stories, shanties and people are solid gold. Sacrifice and courage give these tunes weathered authenticity. Gareth Malone is a treasure!
Fish in the sea is my favorite.
Your profile pic is my favorite
Maggie's song at around minutes 39 - a common sentiment:
Come Monday morning, I would rather stay in bed
When I’m toddling off to work and wishing I was dead
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Brings me no delight
I do not like Monday mornings
I would rather have Saturday nights
Just shows that the idea of hating Mondays is at least 100 years old.
This had so much heart. Was not planning to watch the whole thing but it's so good.Great job to everyone involved in the making of this.
Agreed. Sea shanties have a power and authenticity about them. I think that's why they've proved more popular recently when it's so hard to gauge the authenticity of anything at the moment. Hope their current vogue doesn't make them end up being corporatised and insipid. The programme gave a great insight into their development too. Gareth Malone is better known in the UK for programmes about work-based choirs.
Can't wait for this to get recommended to so many people
Thank you, am from alberta myself and love the newfie and wel, all chanties... so much history and wonderful sounds and music and you don't need an instrument, just yer voice, which you always have with ya. And hopefully you got some buddies to sing with we used to sing our faves together in harmony world over music to our ears and pleasure when we got together, great big sea was our faves, and of course barretts privateers.
Thanks for this vid.
Of course you can't mention being from anywhere in canada and not mention Barretts privateers in the same comment
@@CostcoComrade hehehehe, worked with lotsa Newfies, but dang, really got into the chanties..... great work tunes, and suit my voice.... you betcha. but seems like an old sailor's grave on the prairies here in berta. nothin but piss yellow grass here.
The "Peking", A German Flying P. clipper, mentioned at the very beginning, has been brought back from the US., beautifully restored, and can now be seen in Hamburg harbour.
We all owe a lot to the men who sailed and toiled on wind-driven ships, and sang these work songs. Thanks to those who keep the songs and lore of sailing ships alive.
It'd be good if the producers put the names of the songs in the documentary.
cant believe the internet found my favorite music genre
once the pandemic is "over" i hope these old men will still be alive and young people can join.
Everyone else in my age: Pop, Rap
Me: "singing shantys"
Thank you so much for this fantastic documentary. In 1989 i founded The Amelander Shanty Choir on the Frisian Island Ameland, Netherlands. I look back on a time with very nice memories that we performed a view Times in Hull and further in Shotley point, Bristol and Leith-Edinburgh and have meet nice British singers like Stan Hugill, Jimmy Mcgeehan, Johnny Collins, and Shanty Jack. Great singers who are legends now.
Beste Jan, Mijn familie komt van Terschelling en ik ben een keer naar Ameland geweest. Ik was ook twee jaar geleden op Norderney and langer geleden op Shieremoonikoog. Zou u mij misschien iets kunnen zeggen over "Lieve schipper vaar mij over"? Het was een liedje mijn vader af en toe gezongen heeft.(Hij is in 1969 gestorven.) If you would be so kind to send me information about Frisian sea shanties I would like that very much. hbakker@uoguelph.ca I am a retired U of Guelph prof.
This is probably one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. So good.
To be honest I am with Gareth, when it comes to inspiration, the proms can keep its all be it rather fun and splendid atmosphere, which I totally do not dislike, and give me the rustic purity of true British tradition. |Just in the same way that I love my Gig rowing, over Shell rowing, there is something more than special about shanties.
I did a course in public school, called cemetery studies, where we would visit cemeteries and learn about our past generations, on how you people died years ago. very fascinating to me, and I still visit country cemeteries to learn about local communities.
I love folk music and shanties and I am learning to play a melodeon so this was just my thing
Hello Gareth.
I've missed you. You did a fantastic job with the communities and schools of a few years ago.
I love it.
RIP Joe Stead, former member of Kimber's Men.
There was a sad note from him attached to one of his videos on YT in 2017 detailing how he had recovered from cancer and had decided to resign from the group. He said that they told him they hadn't missed him when he was in hospital and wouldn't miss him in the future either! He had founded and put 15 years of his life into the group so it was a very sad end, I thought. What a thing to say to him, especially after he had just recovered from cancer. There may be more to it than meets the eye, but still ... 🙁.
@@musicloverlondon6070 🙁
@@musicloverlondon6070 Oh. Golly. What a dreadful thing to say to anyone. :(
Look up Danny Spooner, (1936-2017), who brought this music to Melbourne Australia in the 60s and will never be forgotten.
We heard Danny sing when he came to Mystic, a great singer and a dear man!
If you went to the National Folk Festivals he was there. Enjoyed singing with him mostly on the choruses.
i will say and i dont care if the youtube community agrees with me that when we can hear an old 100 plus year song sung to us by the actual man thats fuckin amazing...
i loved the songs from the men in the cathedral as well.. hows about that for a good time ?
I've loved sea shanties for year's finally thanks to tiktok I can feed my addiction
Came across these songs by accident loving celtic folk music. They're a part of me now! Love the harmonies!
sail ships are the ultimate use of renewable energy.
Thank you for this. You can't link to videos on RUclips, so I'd just say look up Stan Rogers Barrett's Privateers. The song is a Canadian sea chantey. The Halifax he sings of is the one in Nova Scotia, not the one in the UK. The sailors long to return to Sherbrooke town. (A town in Quebec).
It is not a sea shanty, to clarify. It is a well-loved maritime tune, and it is a modern tune never used by tall ships in the age of sail.
The version by The Real McKenzies is really good
The Sherbrooke in this shanty is actually Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, Canada.
@@scottdurno7181I should have known that. My bad.
I lived in Falmouth, Cornwall for a few years and I went to the Sea Shanty Festival that they held in the square. It was an incredibly moving experience where I fell further in love with sea shanties and folk music. I also saw the Kimber's Men who sing at 40:00 . you would not believe how passionate the Cornish are! I watched tears roll down the womens cheeks as they sang the song of Cornwall and felt a lump in my throat when the shanty men sang 'bye bye my Roseanna!'
My favorite form of music
This is a very nice documentary done by a very young filmmaker. In the first section I wish he had been able to use more than such a teensy bit of the shanties. Hard for the person who wants to research farther to get enough to be able to. The work sections are amazing. I suspect the Wellermen will bring a lot of folks to this doc. Great.
The lad John's voice at 0:50 is so deep the drill bit melted.
Thanks for sharing, great video.
Liked for the woman's performance at 38:19! Awesome!
I think my favorite think about hearing the original recording, as not even amateur singer myself, is that the dude obviously wasn't a singer how we would define it now. But he was still singing because it fit the work he did, he enjoyed it, and it was in his soul to sing it. So he did. I think that's maybe an element missing with the current re-movement: the idea that one must be excellent or classically trained, in order to shanty. And while it may Sound Better (although that's subjective anyhow).... it's awesome for everyone and anyone to participate and just feel the thing.
Captain Mark Page was my 2x great uncle. I had no idea until I was contacted by someone from the BBC.
I've been really depressed lately and this short film cheered me up a bit if anyone knows more videos like this on RUclips let me know please
Cheer up. Better times on the way.
@@andym9571 i hope so but my life isn't good never has been
@@Realalbertcrowleysame for a lot of people. Hope things change for you.
@@andym9571 it won't trust me it won't
I am finding old French songs that I think were French shanties. I am from Southwest Louisiana and we were once much a sea faring people !
There are many, many traditional French shanties -- before Covid, France hosted huge sea shanty festivals.
The story and song of the last widow at the end brings a lump to my throat. Brilliant documentary, I remember watching it when it aired some years ago. This introduced me to Fisherman's friends and Kimbers men. So glad sea shanties are finding fame.
I fucking love shanties
these sound amazing.. and no one but the boys on the waves would have heard them but not for this documentary...
Great documentary! Glad I found it. I’m a truck driver. Makes me want to create my own solo “Road Chanty.”
please do! don't hesitate to answer this comment if you publish it/record it, i'll spread it around, i'm sure it'll be a blast
Marty moneys pretty decent, wouldn't mind others.
Listen to NORTHWEST PASSAGE ... mentions a comparison between sailing explorers like Lord Franklin and modern folk driving motorized vehicles.
The “Shoals of herring” has been miss attributed many times but I would expect the BBC to do better as the Salford born Ewan McColl wrote it for the BBC Radio Ballard Singing the Fishing.
David wright: We have the entire Singing the Fishing on CD. Lots of wonderful lore and history. Shoals of Herring and North Sea Holes worth learning & singing. Ewan and Peggy did several series on work that no longer exists. The only one that comes to mind is The Traveling People, where Ewan wrote I'm a Freeborn Man.
Gareth Malone the English choirmaster and broadcaster was the first man to watch the main ''Celtic Woman'' instalments as part of BBC FOUR's favourite programmes between 2014 and 2015.
The musical ensemble originally came from UK and Ireland and all over the world.
Saturday 12th April 2014 - Celtic Woman (Chloe Agnew, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Lisa Kelly, Mairead Nesbitt and Orla Fallon)
Wednesday 16th April 2014 - Celtic Woman - A New Journey (Chloe Agnew, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Lisa Kelly, Mairead Nesbitt, Hayley Westenra and Orla Fallon)
Sunday 4th May 2014 - Celtic Woman - Songs from the Heart (Chloe Agnew, Lisa Kelly, Mairead Nesbitt, Lynn Hillary and Alex Sharpe)
Friday 16th May 2014 - Celtic Woman - Believe (Chloe Agnew, Lisa Lambe, Mairead Nesbitt and Lisa Kelly)
Saturday 13th December 2014 - Celtic Woman - A Celtic Christmas or A Christmas Celebration (Chloe Agnew, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Lisa Kelly, Mairead Nesbitt and Orla Fallon)
Wednesday 17th December 2014 - Celtic Woman - Home for Christmas (Chloe Agnew, Susan McFadden, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Lisa Lambe, and Máiréad Nesbitt) Wednesday 11th February 2015 - Celtic Woman - Emerald: Musical Gems (Chloe Agnew, Lisa Lambe, Mairead Nesbitt and Susan MacFadden)
Which one is Gareth Malone's favourite Celtic Woman instalment?
Celtic Woman (2004)
Celtic Woman - A New Journey (2006)
Celtic Woman - Songs from the Heart (2009)
Celtic Woman - Believe (2011)
Celtic Woman - A Celtic Christmas or A Christmas Celebration (2006 and 2007)
Celtic Woman - Home for Christmas (2012 and 2013)
Celtic Woman - Emerald: Musical Gems (2014)
Perfectly splendid
Noticed all the ganseys - the jumpers the old seamen are wearing are traditional sea-going wool equipment - necessary to keep warm while at sea.
A couple of the best sea shanties are Randy o Dandy and Leave Her Jhonny.
Leave Her Johnny for sure! The classic Drunken Sailor is my personal favorite but slower than traditional, most likely weighing anchor rather than raising sails.
dont forget eliza lee
Blow the Man Down
Fish in the sea anyone?
I don't like Monday Morning, I would rather stay in bed. When I'm toddling off to work I wish that I was dead. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday brings me no delight. I don't like Monday morning I would rather have Saturday night. 38:00
That was kind of heavy
Delightful, and prescient.
I live in Canada, I've listened to sea shanties since 2001. People are just finding it now?
Seems like it me ol mainlander, I'm from Newfoundland and grew up with em, it warms the heart seeing other people enjoying them
@@brandonedwards1181 I'm from nova scotia, yeah same. all the songs I grew up with are now popular around the world
Nah, just the mainstream... there’s many of us in the UK who have listened to them since we were chiddlers. It’s the stuff that makes you who you are.
I wish he would listen to Liam Clancy (from the famous Clancy Brothers of the 1960s, since died unfortunately) Listen to him sing "Home From the Sea" a beautiful song about the dangerous life of a fisherman out on the sea.
O yes it’s very good I love it
No, it's about the selfless dedication bravery and personal sacrifice of the upaid volunteers of the RNLI. A fisherman's life is dangerous indeed, but they don't just rescue fishermen. They answer the call of anyone in peril on the sea.
" On a cold winter's night,
With the storm at its height,
The lifeboat answered the call..."
So many great stories but the Whitby one touches me the most, like the incredible feat of community and leadership to drag that thing over there and then go out in the water and the storm, moving heaven and earth to save six of their own.
bound for south australia from ireland.. i dont think anyone will ever care about that but that an extremely specific way that holds many potential interest...
Have always loved the power of sea shanties. For any folk music lovers who would like to explore traditional music and dance I would recommend Cecil Sharp House in Camden, London which runs classes and conserves this heritage of folk music.
0:50 oh stripey is definitely the bass
Edit: 1:00 oh christ they're all basses
awesome doc, thanks for sharing!!
Not ropes, lines!
Aye, but he’s a well meaning landsman so I think we can avast the keelhauling.
But it is a rope
Love this
I’ve listened to shanties all my life. We sang them in Girl Scouts. They are a staple at Renn faires. The day of the shanty will never die.
Thank you
lovely! thanks for uploading i can hear so many connections to american blues and jazz.
Could you elaborate?
@@ProfesserLuigi the pentatonic scale.
the "blues scale" with a flatted fifth note.
Americaaaaaaaaaaaa why are we so good ? we make everything !!
I really enjoyed that!
Fascinating
saw the film Fishermans friends in the xmas . loved every second :) love this music
Fascinating part of history
I hope to one day see a growth of appreciation for this type of song. Whether it's the sea chanties of English sailors or the songs of the slaves in the south. Singing while you work will always be a feature of humanity.
This genre is flourishing and has done so for many many years - you just need to know where to find it. You will hear all this stuff at Folk and Maritime Festivals (I'm in the UK) there are several festivals around : Portsmouth, Hull, Harwich, etc. Just Google and you will find them. Unforch because of Covid (now in L3) all the clubs and festivals are closed - we have withdrawal symptoms!! If you het to some Folk Clubs many people will sing Shanties (I sing Shanties and Sea Songs). Like I say, it's still going on . . .
The song 'Shoals of Herring' was written by Ewan McColl, born in Salford Lancashire to Scottish parents. The Song was written in the 1960's for the BBC radio ballads series. He also wrote Dirty Old Town, often sung by Irish folk bands but written about the city of his birth, Salford, England. Love and peace.
Gareth did an episode of the TV show 'Who Do You Think You Are' and found out that he was related to Dan Lowry, a Liverpool impresario who ran a music hall frequented by the regular influxes of sailors and merchantmen. After months at sea they probably weren't there just for the music. I'll say no more.
Dan Lowry does get a mention however in the (Liverpool) Spinners version of Whip Jamboree recorded in the early 1960's; it's an old sailors' song the sailors would have sung when they got home and is not a shanty, but a fore bitter. I sing a version of this song, including the mention of Dan Lowry, in my band (duo). Check us out on Facebook as The Dronny Bottom Buskers. if there is interest out there we would happily do our take on Whip Jamboree, based on the Spinners' version.
Thanks for posting this video, very interesting! Love and peace.