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Genre: A'cappella / Folk / Other
Location UK
Profile Views: 15041
Last Login: 11/17/2010
Member Since 7/22/2007
Website www.keelers.net
Record Label keelmusic
Type of Label Indie
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....Email me at.....Shanty_jim@hotmail.com...... Jim Mageean .... "Known as "Shanty Jim" for many years, his knowledge of sea songs, infectious enthusiasm, and powerful singing made him the obvious choice to set up a Tyneside shanty group. The first influence on him was Louis Killen, resident at the Bridge in Newcastle in 1963, where Jim started singing. A little later he met "The Master", Stan Hugill, a man who is almost single-handedly responsible for the high profile of shanties in the folk revival. In 1975, he moved to London where he was resident at several excellent clubs, notably Dingle's, the Herga, and The Cellar in C Sharp House. He also teamed up with Johnny Collins to create a formidable singing duo which is still on the road after 33 years. Many American and European tours culminated in them winning the prestigious International Liederfestival in Rostock,Germany in 1983 against competition from 19 countries. Since returning to his native Tyneside in 1985, he has continued with his solo career, singing mostly in sea songs and shanties, with a particular interest in those from the West Indies. Solo albums include: The Capstan Bar, Dingles DIN303 Of Ships and Men, Greenwich Village GVR203 With Johnny:Make the Rafters Roar, Sweet Folk All SFA103 Live at Herga, Sweet Folk All SFA123 Strontrace, Greenwich Village GVR226 Coming Of Age, Columns Disc 290262 ".. ..www.keelers.net.. .. .. -
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10 of 31MoreMusicalement!..................Cheers..........
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Hello,How are you ?
Hello,thanks add!
Hi Jim: just enjoyed, again, your spot on the BBC's Shanties and Sea Songs.
Hi Jim: just enjoyed, again, your spot on the BBC's Shanties and Sea Songs.
Poem cum song 5 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my Blog for details):
STATE TO STATE
(TUNE:
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
F G F C
F G F C
F G F C
C F F F)
From Sydney Town,
In uni. break,
I drove out west
To earnings make
Onion picking,
On the fields
Of Echuca,
That year’s yields.
After day’s work,
From Y.H.A.,
A group of us
Would not delay
To walk on down
To the dirt rim
Of the Murray,
For a cool swim.
On one such day,
I do declare,
Some three of us
Had a big dare
To swim across,
From state to state,
The wide Murray -
I took the bait.
Yes, foolishly,
I took the bait -
A choice that I
Would come to hate,
For I almost
Did drown that date,
Making the swim
From state to state.
(C) David Franks 2003
Enjoyed your singing, here and at folk clubs, Jim.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem, & some songs, on myspace...
Poem 187 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
(see my blog for details): A SOUTH SHIELDS WALKABOUT - AUTUMN 2001
Out of the museum-and-gallery
(Wiser on Cookson and the local way),
Down Ocean Road with, to the right of me,
Its eateries and, left, neat places to stay;
Before, on either side, Marine Parks -
The southern-one a most beautiful place,
Teeming with moorhens, swans, grebes and mallards
In a small lake at a scenic-hill’s base.
Then (holding chips from the parade’s cafe
And, thus, a flock of gulls squawking above)
Onto the South Pier I made my way:
Seeing seaweed over rocks - like a glove -
And high-and-dry sands held from transgression
By growth of grass and the weaving of wood,
Plus, in the dim light of a sleepy sun,
Fishing boats returning to Tynemouth’s hood.
(C) David Franks 2003
Hi Jim, wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, Peace, Neil
Dear friend Jim, great to meet you again, myspace is a winner, all the very best to you and yours, I will send a message later, great to be in contact with you again, take care, Bro Neil