Your most memorable or evocative "boaty" song or music

Sybarite said:
It would be a pity for this thread to fade out when there is so much good music out there.

One to be going on with :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYT5NKAIYI8&feature=BFa&list=FLLd2C1fMB6cU5uunsYRYKeA
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Ooooooo. :):):) Tingly spine and goose-bumps.
A good one, Sybarite, well done. Do I gather the "Lagan" is something to do with Lagan Locks on the Caledonian Canal? Or some other "watery place"?
If not, tenuous for boaty song, but who cares - a wonderful, melodious experience.

Aye, would be a shame to lose all the music threaded, so we'd best save it before the Mod axes it.
I could always start another one - Flying, this time????
 
Robert Wilson said:
Ooooooo. :):):) Tingly spine and goose-bumps.
A good one, Sybarite, well done. Do I gather the "Lagan" is something to do with Lagan Locks on the Caledonian Canal? Or some other "watery place"?
If not, tenuous for boaty song, but who cares - a wonderful, melodious experience.

Aye, would be a shame to lose all the music threaded, so we'd best save it before the Mod axes it.
I could always start another one - Flying, this time????
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The Lagan is the river that runs through Belfast.
 
Tiny Winy

The thing I like with this thread is it combines music that has been suggested by way of a nautical theme or connection and that which is there because it evokes a memory of some experience in boats. One of my songs in the latter category is Arrow's Tiny Winy, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS5v4_JsN-Y I went on a cruise in 1987 from Barbados to St Lucia and Martinique with Martin, known to you all as Bajansailor, and a couple of other friends on Martin's dad's Golden Hind 38, including a sojourn at Rodney Bay where we hauled the boat out & repainted her bottom. The song was being played all the time (well, not in Martinique, obviously, as they prefer french stuff there). If I ever hear that song, it makes me think of that trip.
 
Some operatic references with a water theme :

Wagner : The Flying Dutchman; Das Rheingold; Tristan & Isolde.
Britten : Billy Budd; Peter Grimes.
Bellini : Il Pirata
Dvorak : Rusalka
Mozart : Idomenea
Rossini : Tancredi
Gilbert & Sullivan : The Pirates of Penzance; HMS Pinafore; The Gondoliers.
Ponchielli : La Giaconda
Tchaikovsky : Undine
 
Frogmogman said:
The thing I like with this thread is it combines music that has been suggested by way of a nautical theme or connection and that which is there because it evokes a memory of some experience in boats. One of my songs in the latter category is Arrow's Tiny Winy, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS5v4_JsN-Y I went on a cruise in 1987 from Barbados to St Lucia and Martinique with Martin, known to you all as Bajansailor, and a couple of other friends on Martin's dad's Golden Hind 38, including a sojourn at Rodney Bay where we hauled the boat out & repainted her bottom. The song was being played all the time (well, not in Martinique, obviously, as they prefer french stuff there). If I ever hear that song, it makes me think of that trip.
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Ahhh! Invokes happy memories of watching the Aussies playing the Windies at St. Johns, Antigua. What an atmosphere!
Thanks, I can see why you like it!
 
Robert Wilson said:
Ahhh! Invokes happy memories of watching the Aussies playing the Windies at St. Johns, Antigua. What an atmosphere!
Thanks, I can see why you like it!
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The move to the Sir Vivian Richards stadium from the old recreation ground in St John's is proof indeed that "progress" is not always a good thing.
 
Frogmogman said:
The move to the Sir Vivian Richards stadium from the old recreation ground in St John's is proof indeed that "progress" is not always a good thing.
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If I am correct, "the old recreation ground" is where I watched that match. Yes? What a fabulous day's entertainment!
Whenever the Windies hit a 4 or 6, or took a wicket the whole ground lept to its feet and erupted in dancing, singing, steel-band playing and ghetto-blaster-cacophany. What was not so magic was the swaying (in time to the music etc) of the grandstand, built of very suspiciously thin steel girders.:cool:

I still have my (very faded) baseball cap in Windies' colours. Happy days :)
 
Robert Wilson said:
What is your favourite boaty music of ALL TIME?
Mine is Morning Has Broken, heard whilst drifting on the ebb tide down The Percuil River very early one July morning aboard the true love of my life.
Cat Stevens famously sang it, but I'm not sure if it was him that oh-so-memorable morning.


One July day in 1962 I was asked by two local skippers to crew on The Manacles Race; Falmouth Bay to The Manacles Buoy and back. The boat was to be an old (1897) gaff cutter named Benbecula; I had neither seen her nor heard of her. She was still on the mud in the Percuil River by St. Mawes and we’d have to float her off on the early-morning tide, with the aid of four 45 gallon oil-drums for extra buoyancy. Then we’d have to rig her and get to the start line. She had no engine (working) and with no sails we’d have to drift down the river with the ebb.

A very early start was required. Daybreak was somewhere around 3.30 so we would be working by torchlight to get ready to float-off.

The early hours were flat calm, and very chilly – we hoped for a decent wind for the race. As the light hardened her form began to show; exquisite! 21ft waterline, 36ft overall with a beautiful clipper bow and long bowsprit and a long counter-stern. She was long-keeled and slim.

Eventually we floated her off the mud and punted her out through the myriad of moored yachts into the flow of the river. We had a transistor radio switched-on ready for the weather report; it was quietly playing music, suitable for the few early-risers or those late abed.
The sky turned from deep blue to a pale yellow; nothing was stirring apart from an occasional oyster-catcher “peeping” away across the flat water. We drifted silently towards the curve in the river and the wider bay of St. Mawes. A more serene and emotional experience is hard to imagine.

The radio started playing Morning Has Broken, at its most haunting and beautiful. It still brings goose-bumps to my body and tears well-up in my eyes whenever or wherever I hear it. The memory of that experience will stay with me forever.

Benbecula? My family went on to buy the old girl and enjoyed many thrilling and instructive years sailing her. Eventually we sold her in the late 70s - to the two skippers who introduced me to her. They were expert joiners by trade and totally rebuilt her. She is still in the Falmouth area, I HOPE.
Oh, and by the way, we won that long and testing race, on handicap!
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I just happened upon this and thought it merited being added to the list:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GIm2apmxRs&feature=related
 
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Charlie Drake - my boomerang wont come back. Sorry just c/p the lyrics. I choose this song because i was asked to sing a song while drinking in the early hours on board and this just came up. Luckily the older guy knew it. I could not believe i remembered it all from as a child finding it as a record in my parents records box in Hk

In the bad bad lands of Australia,
Many years ago…
The Aborigine Tribe were meeting
…Were having a big Pow Wow.
(Sounds of Tribe chanting… Hookaya Heya. Hookaya Heya.)
We got a lotta trouble, Chief
On account of your son, Mac.
‘My son, Mac? Why, what’s wrong with him?
My boomerang won’t come back.
Your boomerang won’t come back?
My boomerang won’t come back.
My boomerang won’t come back.
I’ve waved the thing all over the place,
Practised ’till I was black in the face…
I’m a big disgrace to th’ Abrigine race.
My boomerang won’t come back.
I can ride a kangaroo (Yeah, yeah.)
Make kikaju stew (Yeah, yeah.)
But I’m a big disgrace to th’ Abrigine race.
My boomerang won’t come back.
They banished him from the Tribe there
And sent him on his way.
He had a back-less boomerang,
So here he could not stay.
(Imagine some silly bush animal sound effects… Weeep, weep! Woosh Woosh!)
This is nice, ain’t it? Getting banished at my time of life. What a way to spend an evening. Sitting on a rock in the middle of the desert with me boomerang in me hand. I shall very likely get bushwhacked…
(More bush animal sound effects.)
Get out of it! …Nasty bushwhacking animals. I think I’ll make a nice cuppa tea.
(Spring-bouncy sound effects: Boinggg, Boinggg, Boinggg!)
Good garacious! There goes a kangaroo. I must have a practise with my boomerang.
(Boingggg! Boing! Boungggg!)
Hit him right behind the left ear-hole. Now then, slowly back…
(Kangaroo speaks: IF YOU THROW THAT THING AT ME, I’LL JUMP RIGHT ON YOUR HEAD!
Sounds of Kangaroo bouncing away… Boinggg! Boing! Boinggg!)
Ain’t it marvellous? Got a land full of kangaroos, and I had to go and pick that one.
(Tribe sings together:)
For three long months he sat there,
Or maybe it was four,
When an old old man in a kangaroo skin,
Came knocking at his door.
Now I’m the local witch-doctor, son.
They call me George Elvis Black.
Now tell me, what’s your trouble boy?
My boomerang won’t come back.
Your boomerang won’t come back?
My boomerang won’t come back.
My boomerang won’t come back.
I’ve waved the thing all over the place,
Practised ’till I was black in the face…
I’m a big disgrace to th’ Abrigine race.
My boomerang won’t come back.
Don’t worry, boy. I know the trick, And to you I’m going to show it.
If you want your boomerang to come back…
Well, first you gotta throw it!
Oh yes. (Giggles.) Never thought of that.
Daddy will be pleased… Must have a go.
Now then, slowly back… And throwWWWW.
(Sound effects: First of boomerang wooshing through the air, and then an airplane motor. The plane’s in a death dive. Down, down… Louder and louder. Explosion and flames.)
Oh My Gawd, I’ve hit the Flying Doctor!
Can you do First Aid?
Don’t you talk to me about First Aid, boy. You owe me 14 chickens already.
Please, don’t ask what Kikaju Stew is. The songwriter must have made that one up.
 
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