Greenland Whale Fisheries is the featured song in this episode of Folk Files. While delving into the origins of the song, we will explore other ballads about Greenland and dip our toes into the extensive history of whaling. Well row’d, jolly trouts!
Host: Olivia Harding
Special thanks to: Pegmouth, ARRR!!!, and Aaron J. Morton
Musical excerpts:
ARTIST: ARRR!!!
WORK: Greenland Whale Fisheries
SOURCE: Plunderstruck (2010)
ARTIST: Peter, Paul, and Mary
WORK: Greenland Whale Fisheries
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKsJrFy4Q_E
ARTIST: The Watersons
WORK: The Greenland Whale Fishery
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzMQYfRexUU
ARTIST: A.L. Lloyd
WORK: The Greenland Whale Fishery
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOzI4IEkF0
ARTIST: David Pryor (Recorded by Alan Lomax and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle)
WORK: When the Whale Get Strike
SOURCE: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-alan-lomax-collection-deep-river-of-song-bahamas-1935/2675148
ARTIST: Stan Rogers
WORK: Northwest Passage
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI
ARTIST: Clanna Morna
WORK: Bonnie Ship the Diamond
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i51KjpPvRKU
ARTIST: Judy Collins
WORK: Farewell to Tarwathie
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV29xK2xyZ4
ARTIST: Whales! (recorded by the Oceania Project)
WORK: Whale Song
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabT1L-nN-E
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