From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V9 #84 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Saturday, May 12 2007 Volume 09 : Number 084 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Mercy Street [Em ] [RS] Humpback Whale ["Arthur Wood" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 19:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Em Subject: [RS] Mercy Street hello, firstly, thanks to those who replied re: the whaling stuff. To the person who asked about the 100 Yrs reference - I'm not that far yet! Guess I thought it would be cool for Richard to discover a galleon in the woods. :) Mercy Street: the way it starts....reminds me of other stuff, other music, and I kept wondering...tonight I flashed that it sounds like a cut on Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium album, can't think which cut - but its oddly similar. ALso If I'd had to guess from scratch who wrote that song, I'd have said Jules Shear. OK, enuf, back to Delia.. Em ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 09:46:12 +0100 From: "Arthur Wood" Subject: [RS] Humpback Whale From the FolkWax review of "The Humback Whale" late April 2007 ..............and is followed by a whaling song composed by Harry Robertson [d. 1995] a Glasgow-born seaman who settled in Australia. Post his WWII service in the Royal Navy, Robertson worked on whaling vessels in Antarctica and later in Moreton Bay and Byron Bay. It's no great secret that Shindell is a rabid Nic Jones fan, and his familiarity with Robertson's "The Humpback Whale" aka "The Ballina Whalers" comes by way of the Yorkshireman's rendition on "Penguins Eggs" [1980]. Composed circa 1970, and set in 1956, "The Humpback Whale," recalls how the 'Byron One,' crewed by former Ballina, New South Wales trawler men - hence the repeated "Forget your snapper and your prawn" - went in search of whales. Commercial whaling in Ballina lasted from 1954 - 1962, and these days it's the pleasurable activity whaling watching that brings in the bucks. Never a Richard Thompson addict, his easily discernible contribution to "The Humpback Whale" fits like a glove. trawler men fish for many species..............incl. snapper and prawn Arthur Wood. ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V9 #84 **********************************