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Musical Score from the Film

Whaler Out of New Bedford

Based on the Original Panorama of a
Whaling Voyage Round the World,
And Other Songs of the Whaling Era.

Whaler Out of New Bedford

Whaler Out of New Bedford and Other Songs of the Whaling Era
Ewan MacColl, A.L. Lloyd, Peggy Seeger

Folkways FS 3850 (LP, USA, 1962)
Smithsonian Folkways FW03850 (CD/download, USA, 2004 or earlier)

Publishing/Copyright: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
All rights reserves

The film was produced by Francis Thompson, Inc., documentary film maker of New York;
Written and photographed by Adam Giffard

Arrangement for the film score and songs by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl;
Tongan music recorded by Dr. James Spillius;
La Marsellaise arranged by Paul Fran

Whaling commentary by Philip F. Purrington, Curator of the Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts;
Jacket design: Keturah Kowalke;
The woodcut on the album cover is from the original handbill that was used when the Panorama was displayed in 1848

Liner notes (PDF) at Smithsonian Global Sound

Musicians

Ewan MacColl, A.L. Lloyd, Peggy Seeger, vocals;
Louis Killen, Charles Parker, Joe Higgins, John Reavey, Ian Logan, chorus;
Peggy Seeger, banjo, guitar, autoharp;
Alf Edwards, concertina, oracina;
Dave Swarbrick, fiddle

Tracks

Side 1: Whaler Out of New Bedford:
A Musical Score from the Film (23.01)		 Side 2: Songs of the Whaling Era
  1. [EM] Blow Ye Winds Hi-Ho
  2. [ALL] Blow Boys Blow
  3. [PS, ALL] Tom's Gone to Hilo
  4. [EM] Off to Sea Once More
  5. [EM] The Greenland Whale Fishery
  6. (Hawaiian war chant)
  7. [EM] Blow Ye Winds Hi-Ho
  8. (Tahitian hula)
  9. [EM] The Harbour of Typee
  10. La Marseillaise
  11. [ALL] Blood Red Roses
  12. [EM] Now We're Laying in Rio
  13. [EM, ALL] Goodbye Fare You Well
  1. [EM] The Fitting Out (3.37)
  2. [ALL] Boney (1.13)
  3. [EM] The Bark Gay Head (2.42)
  4. [PS] The Boston-Come-All-Ye (3.18)
  5. [EM] The Coast of Peru (3.24)
  6. [PS] Mary Ann (3.24)
  7. [EM] Desolation (2.53)
  8. [EM] A Hundred Years on the Eastern Shore (1.50)
  9. [EM] Homeward Bound (2.11)