Deep Sea Chanteys And Whaling Ballads

Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads are two albums recorded then combined for release as a 1941 album by the Almanac Singers

Almanac Singers

The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who, as their name indicates, specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with the labor movement...

. The lineup of the group at the time was Millard Lampell

Millard Lampell

Millard Lampell was an American movie and television screenwriter who first became publicly known as a member of the Almanac Singers in the 1940s....

, Lee Hays, Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie

Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...

and Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger

Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...

. The group received a $250 advance for both albums and bought a Buick

Buick

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for a cross country tour.

The songs are:

Track	Song Title	By
1.	Blow The Man Down	Traditional
2.	Blow Ye Winds, Heigh Ho	Traditional
3.	The Coast of High Barbary	Traditional
4.	The Golden Vanity	Traditional
5.	Haul Away, Joe	Traditional
6.	Way, Rio	Traditional

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