Music to sail Cape Dorys by!!

[Bill Goldsmith]

For all those who either (1) make their own cassettes, (2) make their own CDs (compact dics!!!) or (3) just want ideas of new things to play, I'd like to solicit suggestions on recorded music that CD aficionados like to sail by. Let's break down the suggestions into two categories: A: Sailing theme (songs or music with a title, subject, theme or reference to sailing, ships or the sea) and B: General (Music that may not have such theme or reference, but which you have enjoyed listening to under sail).

I'll compile all the suggestions I get either on the board or by e-mail and I'll post the compilation in a week or two.

I'll start with a few selections including some that my friend Mark Y. put on a CD-R a while back:

Category A
Come Sail Away--Styx
Sailing--Christopher Cross
Gilligan's Island Theme!!
Sloop John B.--Beach Boys
Southern Cross--Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Wooden Ships-Crosby Stills Nash
Ship of Fools--Grateful Dead
Water Music--Handel

Hopefully this is just the beginning!


Bill Goldsmith
Self-proclaimed Nautical Musicology Officer, CDSOA 385



goldy@bestweb.net

[Steve Ingmire]

For all those who either (1) make their own cassettes, (2) make their own CDs (compact dics!!!) or (3) just want ideas of new things to play, I'd like to solicit suggestions on recorded music that CD aficionados like to sail by. Let's break down the suggestions into two categories: A: Sailing theme (songs or music with a title, subject, theme or reference to sailing, ships or the sea) and B: General (Music that may not have such theme or reference, but which you have enjoyed listening to under sail).

I'll compile all the suggestions I get either on the board or by e-mail and I'll post the compilation in a week or two.

I'll start with a few selections including some that my friend Mark Y. put on a CD-R a while back:

Category A
Come Sail Away--Styx
Sailing--Christopher Cross
Gilligan's Island Theme!!
Sloop John B.--Beach Boys
Southern Cross--Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Wooden Ships-Crosby Stills Nash
Ship of Fools--Grateful Dead
Water Music--Handel

Hopefully this is just the beginning!


Bill Goldsmith
Self-proclaimed Nautical Musicology Officer, CDSOA 385

JIMMY BUFFETT MOST ANY SONG HE DOE'S
Boat Drinks
Son of Sailor
Volcano
etc
etc



chiping@tcol.net

[Warren Kaplan]

Bill,
Great idea. I'll have to think about the sailing music I like. I know one thing. Anytime I'm caught in 25+ knots of wind, beating head long into some decent waves, with the spray all over the deck and me, Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries" plays thrrough my head. I don't know if cueing it up on the CD player would serve any purpose because in those conditions there's enough "music" singing thru the rigging!!
By the way...luckily I don't experience that music too often when sailing!

Warren Kaplan
S/V Sine Qua Non
CD27



Setsail728@aol.com

[Patrick Meyer]

Neil Young is one of my favorite artists, and I would add two of his songs to the list:

"Four Strong Winds" which is on the CD "Comes a Time"
and
"Sail Away" which is on the CD "Rust Never Sleeps"

I'm like you -- I've been compiling a list of songs over the years to put together the ultimate sailing tape. And I agree -- most things that Jimmy Buffet puts out would not be inappropriate.

Patrick
CD 26
Sea Mist



patrick_meyer@vanguard.com

[wawillis@toad.net]

For all those who either (1) make their own cassettes, (2) make their own CDs (compact dics!!!) or (3) just want ideas of new things to play, I'd like to solicit suggestions on recorded music that CD aficionados like to sail by. Let's break down the suggestions into two categories: A: Sailing theme (songs or music with a title, subject, theme or reference to sailing, ships or the sea) and B: General (Music that may not have such theme or reference, but which you have enjoyed listening to under sail).

I'll compile all the suggestions I get either on the board or by e-mail and I'll post the compilation in a week or two.

I'll start with a few selections including some that my friend Mark Y. put on a CD-R a while back:

Category A
Come Sail Away--Styx
Sailing--Christopher Cross
Gilligan's Island Theme!!
Sloop John B.--Beach Boys
Southern Cross--Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Wooden Ships-Crosby Stills Nash
Ship of Fools--Grateful Dead
Water Music--Handel

Hopefully this is just the beginning!


Bill Goldsmith
Self-proclaimed Nautical Musicology Officer, CDSOA 385

How 'bout:
"Boats to Build"
"Blowin' Like a Bandit" both written and sung by Guy Clark
Bill
CD25 "Sadie"

[Tod Mills]

For Category A:

Stan Rogers, http://stevebriggs.superb.net/stanrogers/

There are a myriad of songs to choose from with this guy, and I love his clear, bass voice. (note, the ones starting with "The" are referring to boat's names):

The Jeannie C.
The Nancy
White Squall
Lock-Keeper
Bluenose
The Wreck of the Athens Queen
Barrett's Privateers
Make and Break Harbour
The Mary Ellen Carter
Cape St. Mary's
Free in the Harbour
Sailor's Rest

Gordon Lightfoot:

Christian Island
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Race Among the Ruins
Ghosts of Cape Horn
Too Many Clues in this Room

Lyle Lovett:

If I had a Boat


Schooner Fare:

Day of the Clipper
The Drunken Sailor
Shoals of Herring


Chris Andrews & Mark Hiscock (Newfoundland):

The Diamond
The Old Polina

Here's a link to a music store in St. John's Newfoundland which has some maritime stuff (that's where I picked up Chris & Mark's CD:

http://www.obriens.nf.ca/default.htm



htmills@bright.net

[Jo Chamberlain]

If I had to pick one song it would be Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
If I had to pick one artist it would definitely be Jimmy Buffet. Favorites for sailing include:
Son of a Son of a Sailor
Cheeseburger in Paradise
Changes in Lattitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Coconut Telegraph
A Pirate Looks at Forty
Margaritaville
One Particular Harbor

My husband says to be sure to include The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot and The Ride of the Valkaries by Wagner



jchamber@crosslink.net

[Ed Haley]

There's a nice CD by Gordon Bok (SCHOONERS) that would be a candidate for Category A. Its full of ballads and sailing songs. The songs are sung by one or two singers along with a guitar. Some of the songs bring back the lore of sailing the schooners of the past with their white clouds of sails passing the green masts of the great northeast wooded shores.

My wife and kids hate the album. But it's near and dear to me on some nights in port after a visit to town for a fun-filled evening of grog and dancing.



eghaley@twcny.rr.com

[huw]

i find myself rather satisfied with the sound of the chuckling sea. i can't imagine why i'd actually turn on the stereo while sailing. and then, after i endure that fiasco that to me is docking, nothing sounds better than the "ksssssh" of an ice cold beer being opened!



hmeyrick@ameritech.net

[Chris Scheck]

How about the theme to "Voyage of the Damned"? Was that ever made into a movie?



cscheck@aol.com

[brian]

For all those who either (1) make their own cassettes, (2) make their own CDs (compact dics!!!) or (3) just want ideas of new things to play, I'd like to solicit suggestions on recorded music that CD aficionados like to sail by. Let's break down the suggestions into two categories: A: Sailing theme (songs or music with a title, subject, theme or reference to sailing, ships or the sea) and B: General (Music that may not have such theme or reference, but which you have enjoyed listening to under sail).

I'll compile all the suggestions I get either on the board or by e-mail and I'll post the compilation in a week or two.



I'll start with a few selections including some that my friend Mark Y. put on a CD-R a while back:

Category A
Come Sail Away--Styx
Sailing--Christopher Cross
Gilligan's Island Theme!!
Sloop John B.--Beach Boys
Southern Cross--Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Wooden Ships-Crosby Stills Nash
Ship of Fools--Grateful Dead
Water Music--Handel

Hopefully this is just the beginning!


Bill Goldsmith
Self-proclaimed Nautical Musicology Officer, CDSOA 385

Blowin'a Houlee by Ken Gill-every song on the album.



brian@harvardthermal.com

[Mario]

Well, now...let's dip into the classical realm...

How about:

Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" AKA "Fingal's Cave Overture."
Vaughan-Williams' "A Sea Symphony"
The fourth movement of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony ("Pastoral")

...and don't forget Bantock's "A Hebridean Symphony."

And for classical rock fans, try Procol Harum's "A Salty Dog"

Mario
s/v Rhapsody
CD 30 #252



capedory252@aol.com

[brian]

For all those who either (1) make their own cassettes, (2) make their own CDs (compact dics!!!) or (3) just want ideas of new things to play, I'd like to solicit suggestions on recorded music that CD aficionados like to sail by. Let's break down the suggestions into two categories: A: Sailing theme (songs or music with a title, subject, theme or reference to sailing, ships or the sea) and B: General (Music that may not have such theme or reference, but which you have enjoyed listening to under sail).

I'll compile all the suggestions I get either on the board or by e-mail and I'll post the compilation in a week or two.



I'll start with a few selections including some that my friend Mark Y. put on a CD-R a while back:

Category A
Come Sail Away--Styx
Sailing--Christopher Cross
Gilligan's Island Theme!!
Sloop John B.--Beach Boys
Southern Cross--Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Wooden Ships-Crosby Stills Nash
Ship of Fools--Grateful Dead
Water Music--Handel

Hopefully this is just the beginning!


Bill Goldsmith
Self-proclaimed Nautical Musicology Officer, CDSOA 385

Blowin'a Houlee by Ken Gill-every song on the album.



brian@harvardthermal.com

[Mark Yashinsky]

This question comes from a person who'se two big loves in life (family has been push above these) are sailing and music. He's just getting other ideas for one when he's doing the other. FYI, people on the Hudson knows when Second Chance is out and her Captain is in a good mood by the tunes that seem to carry the length and breath. Now, how to install that subwoofer to get the Hudson to jump w/ the music....

[Mark Yashinsky]

Recently hearing "The Downeaster Alexa" by Billy Joel, made me think of a fleet sailing North out of Block Island.

FYI, "Ship of Fool" and "Gilligan's Island Theme" are reserved for when Bill Goldsmith and myself do one of our bareboat charters and the Supreme Commanders (the wives) say we must take all the kids. We also reserve "Come Sail Away" as the first sailing song on these charters.