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A sea shanty, shanty, chantey, or chanty (/ ˈ ʃ æ n t iː /) is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels.
Denny Gerrard (of Warm Sounds) produced Sea Shanties in return for High Tide acting as the backing band on his solo album Sinister Morning.The recording sessions for the two albums overlapped, with Sinister Morning being finished in late June 1969, [2] and Sea Shanties being started on the 2nd of that month.
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The term "sea songs" may also be used to refer to any songs about or concerned with ships and seafarers. Such songs (including sea shanties and other work songs) are most commonly classed as folk music and are a major feature of maritime festivals held at seaports (and some river-ports) around the UK. Incipit of "Princess Royal"
It contained 50 songs, half of which would find their way into most modern shanty books or repertoires. [4] Whall's book preceded the collection of another genuine seafarer Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915). Bullen went to sea in 1869 aged 12 and later became a prolific novelist. At the end of his life, he set out 42 shanties in his interesting ...
Lewis records most of his songs a cappella in the traditional style of sea shanties. [8] However, he also plays the button accordion and ukulele. [9] [4] His songs cover a variety of topics ranging from the life of sailors onboard ships, the attraction and loneliness of the sea, to "traditional shanties and classic nautical poetry set to music."
Acapella group Home Free would excerpt this version as part of their 2021 "Sea Shanty Medley", [15] released into the "social media craze" surrounding shanties and similar songs during the COVID-19 social distancing lockdowns. This vogue would draw attention to and inspire other ensembles to record and release the song on various social media ...
Laura Alexandrine Smith (1861–1902) [1] was an English musician, [2] ethnomusicologist [3] and one of the earliest collectors of sea shanties. [4] Smith's The Music of the Waters, published in 1888, was possibly the first collection of sea shanties to include music as well as words.