Flash Packet Sings Sea Shanties

Flash Packet is a Los Angeles based sea shanty and living history group: http://www.lahacal.org/packet.html. Video by Bill Howard. Flash Packet consists of Bill Howard, Walter Nelson, Sheila Murphy-Nelson and Scott Hulett.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Sea
• Shanties
• shanty
• song
• songs
• Music
• living
• history
• sailors
• Walter
• Nelson
• Sheila
• Murphy

[sespela]

This is perfect for a real sailor like me.

I'm a Norwegian deck hand sailing world wide on chemical tankers.

Beauty this is!

[hultonclint]

I really like how you guys sang "Rio Grande"!

"Codfish Shanty" is a little off in places (?), pitch n such

"Mingulay Boat Song"....I dunno, not really a "chantey" for my taste

"Old Maui" sounds great!

"Blood Red Roses" I like, but sounds weird with the woman's voice (apologies)

"Hieland Laddie" and "John Kanaka" are well sung

"New York Girls" needs more salt ;)

Thanks for sharing!!

[deirosen]

In response to the person who wrote that "women would not have been allowed to sing any work shantie" ... I really don't think that it's a matter of being allowed or not, it's a matter of the context of these songs. Yes, they were sung in male dominated contexts, but that doesn't say anything about who was "allowed" to sing shanties. These days, when the songs are disconnected from their original context, I don't think it matters in the least who sings.

[Mastershayster]

Ha, you're funny.

[chengloki]

helmuth, I know what you men. Here in Hawai'i, in downtown Waikiki, it feels like your in downtown Tokyo. We have a rich seagoing heretage. But, the powers that be, ignore it. They even sold the "Falls of Clyde". I quit!! =Stefan=

[helmuthoorn]

Would love to do what these people do, but unfortunately in this country they donot take care of their heritage, so - in spite of our big maritime history-there are very few authentic Dutch chanties left owadays.

[sKEtLeZz]

don't be sexist

[terrigar]

Get that bloody woman away from our shanties! A woman on a shanty is like a handbag on a stoker, damn fools!!

[speckspeck]

aye, and we lost a female sailor blown off the decks of a sailing ship as she assisted in battening down before a violent gust front hit, a brave lass now lies off the coast of Atlantic city. This happened 16 months ago and she was a college student in the maritime class.

[Tiranloblanc]

There's a certain degree of unreality in all of this. They wouldn't be sung by people standing around. They were work songs and sung only for that purpose - and those sailors wouldn't be out of shape, fat, old etc. Life is a series of compromises.