Sailing music

[Loren Beach]

Adding some grace notes to an ongoing thread....
I just D/L the album, Vangelis Themes from the iTunes Store. This is wonderful music and has a quiet sailing sort of resonance to it. It helps that he has scored a lot of my favorite movies over the years.

And for when the wind picks up a little, launch the kite and click on Chariots of Fire! Turn it Up!



Loren

ps: Mark, thanks for the lead on the Vanduras. Great stuff, and I ended up buying several songs.

 

[mherrcat]

Cool! Also look up The Blue Hawaiians. The CDs "Savage Night", "Live at the Lava Lounge" and "Live at the Lava Lounge II" are particularly good. The steel guitar player for the Vanduras and The Blue Hawaiians also did a lot of the steel guitar heard on the "Sponge Bob Square Pants" cartoon show.

 

[thomthod]

I think my fav tune to sail to is "prince of the sea" by Lenny white. Its a guitar duo between Al dimeola and Larry coryell. Of course the whole album CARAVANSERAI by santana rules!

 

[MarkA]

Boats & Ho's!

The Boats & Ho's rap by Prestige Worldwide from the movie, Stepbrothers.

 

[Emerald]

Errr, look up at that logo on the mainsail. I think there is only one appropriate thing to be played on our lovely boats, at least under way. It's just right there staring down at us. Why, The Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner. It's a no-brainer

 

[Jeff Asbury]

Has this been covered already? "I'm On A Boat"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUjx4_X1qA&feature=related

 

[PDX]

Here's a nice music and sailing video

"Salty Dog" by Procul Harem. The second song is by Bill Evans, I think it is "Gloria's Step."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDLYaM6-sRI

 

[psanburn]

Music Onboard

While the sound of water aganist the bow and wind against the sails and through the riggen can't be beat, music can often really move the total experience needle.

CARAVANSERAI by Santana, now there's a great album that I'll have to bring onboard.

One of my favorites is Symphony No 3 by Henryk Gorecki. Soaring arias that seem to help drive the boat forward in a good wind. Another good one is U2's album Achtung Baby.

If winds are gentle and we're just cruising along, Van Morrison doesn't disappoint, nor does Keith Jarrett, more specifically his solo album The Melody at Night, With You.

The list goes on and on, all depending on the wind and weather. I just have to upgrade my onboard stereo to optimize the musical experience!

Peter S
Bayview ID

 

[toddster]

I'm curious what media people are using for their music on board. CD's? 8-tracks? A ukelele and a tambourine?

I just installed a new stereo in the boat and felt like a bit of a dinosaur, insisting on a model with a CD player. In reality, I will probably mostly stream digital music from iTunes on my laptop or iPad.

 

[mherrcat]

Mine has an input for iPod, etc. and also an Auxilliary input. I think most of them are set up that way. Plus that old Compact Disc format...

 

[sailingjazz]

I second Great Big Sea and would add the Rankin Family. The folks in the Maritines know how to make music. There is no place better than George Street in St. Johns on a Saturday night.

 

[aquavit]

If it hasn't been mentioned already Sail by Awolnation is the perfect song to un-nerve anyone within earshot. Great song.GlennAquavit

 

[Jeff Asbury]

Warren Zevon - Mutineer

Warren Zevon - Mutineer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqWqyjUsCAw&feature=related

 

[MarkA]

The most romantic sailing tune ever!

The actual movie scene is better (when they hit the rocks) but here's the uncut (NSFW) video: http://youtu.be/o8T095mFdW8

Will Farrell & John C. Riley, a/k/a Huff & Doback, a/k/a Prestige Worldwide

The wind always seems to perk up a bit when this is playing.

 

[Loren Beach]

Another new group

I just followed a link from NPR music to this "indie" group today.
Pure Bathing Culture

Never heard of 'em before, and I live in Portland -- but it's a big city these days.

Seems like good listening for a quiet day on the water.
Found four songs on the iTunes Store, and could not resist buying all four.



LB

 

[Calendrû]

The song/story 'Peter Kagan and the Wind' sung/told by either the late and lamented Tommy Makem or the still going strong Gordon Bok. The conversation Kagan has with the wind is dead on.

 

[Jeff Asbury]

Top 10 Sailing Songs - the Winners from 2007 + a long list of others.

Top 10 Sailing Songs - the Winners from 2007 + a long list of others.

http://messingaboutinboats.typepad.com/sailing/2007/06/top_10_sailing__1.html

Top 10 Sailing Songs of 2007
1. "Son of a Son of a Sailor" - Jimmy Buffet
2. "Southern Cross" - Crosby Still & Nash
3. "Sloop John B" - Beach Boys
4. "Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot
5. "Changes in latitudes" - Jimmy Buffet
5. "If I had a boat" - Lyle Lovett
6. "Come Sail Away" - Styx
7. "Brandy " - Looking Glass
8."The Mary Ellen Carter" - Stan Rogers
9. "Barrett's Privateers" - Stan Rogers
10. 'Sail Away' - David Gray

A long list of others.

4 Preps - 26 miles
"Aaliyah - ""Rock The Boat"" "
Al Stewart - Life In Dark Water
Arlo Guthrie - Sailor's Bonnet
Avalon - Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
Basil Poledouris- The Dinghy Race (Senta) .
Beach Boys - Kokomo
Beach Boys - Sail On Sailor
Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Beach Boys- Kokomo
Beca Boys - Sail on Sailor
Billie Holiday - A Sailboat in the Moonlight
Blondie - The Tide Is High
Blue4s Image Ride Captain Ride
Bob Dylan- Shelter from the Storm
Bobbie Darin - Beyond the Sea
Burl Ives - Away Rio
Burl Ives- Leave her Johnny leave her
Burl Ives- What do you do with a drunken sailor
Buster Poindexter- Hot hot hot
Carbon Leaf - Home
Cat Steven - Longer Boats
Cat Stevens - Angel Sea
Cat Stevens- The Wind by
Cecilio and Kapono (from Hawaii) - Sailing
Chris De Burgh - Sailing Away
Christie Moore - The Voyage
Christopher Cross - Chris Cross
Chubawumba -Tubthumping
Come Sail Away - Styx
Commodores - Sail On
Cowboy Junkies- White Sail
Craig Toungate-Yo Ho, Ho (and A Bottle of Rum)
Crash Test Dummies -Swimming in your Ocean
Cream—Tales of Brave Ulysses
CSN - Shadow Captain
CSN - Southern Cross
CSN&Y - Lee Shore
CSNY - Wooden Ships
David Gray - Sail Away
Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
Dire Straits - Singlehanded Sailor
Doors - Land Ho
Doors—Crystal Ship
Double - Capt. of Her Heart
Duran Duran - Rio
Ella Fitzgerald- Smooth Sailing by
Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding
Enya - Caribbean Blue
Enya - Orinoco Flow
Enya - Sail Away
Eric Bogel' - Safe in the Harbor
Eric carmen - Boats Against The Current
Eric Wakely - Sailing Solo
Every Mother Son -Come on Down to my Boat Baby
Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind
Freddy McGregor - Big Ship Sailing
Garth Brooks - The River
Glenn Yarborough - Chanteyman
Glenn Yarborough - I Could Have Been A Sailor
Goldfinger - 99 red balloons
Gordon Bok - Isle a Haut
Gordon Lightfoot - Ghosts of Cape Horn
Gordon Lightfoot - In the Lee of Christian Island
Gordon Lightfoot—Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain / Closer To Home
Grand Funk Railroad -Closer to my Home
Grateful Dead - Ship of Fools
Grateful Dead- Franklins Tower
Grateful Dead- Lost Sailor
Great Big Sea - A Boat like Gideon Brown's
Great Big Sea - Boston & St Johns, Great Big Sea - Wave over Wave
Great Big Sea - Captain Kidd
Great Big Sea - Lukey
Harry Belefonte- Day Oh (Banana Boat song)
Harry Belefonte- Jamaca Farewell
Ian Matthews- keep on sailing -
Jack Johnson- A Pirate Looks at Forty
Jack Johnson- The Horizon has been defeated
James White -Splendid Adventure
Jeff Beck -Blue Wind
Jefferson Starship—Santiago, Wooden Ships
Jerry Jeff Walker - Pissn' in the Wind
Jim Morris - Key Wasted
Jim Morris - Laid Back
Jim Morris -The Sailor Race
Jimi Hendrix - Drifting
Jimmy Buffet - Lovely Cruise
Jimmy Buffet - Take It Back
Jimmy Buffet - changes in latitudes
Jimmy Buffet - Fins
Jimmy Buffet - Landfall
Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffet - mother ocean
Jimmy Buffet - one particular harbor
Jimmy Buffet - Pirate
Jimmy Buffet - Sea of heartbreak
Jimmy Buffet - Landfall
Jimmy Buffet -Boats to Build
Jimmy Buffet Sea of Heartbreak
Jimmy Buffet- Son of a Son of a Sailor
Jimmy Buffett - Boats To Build (with Alan Jackson)
Jimmy Buffett - One Particular Harbor
Jimmy Buffett - The Captain and the Kid
Jimmy Buffett- Lovely Cruise
Jimmy Buffett- Mother Ocean
Joan Baez—Spanish Boots
Joe Cocker- Sail Away
Kalapana - Midnight Sailing
Kenny Chesney - French Kissin' Life
Kenny Chesney -Be as you are
KT Tunstall - Silent Sea
Leadbelly-Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne
Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
Little River Band - Cool Change
Loggins and Messina - Vahevala
Looking Glass-Brandy
Loudan Wainwright's III - Good Ship Venus
Luka Bloom - Sunny Sailor Boy
Lyle Lovett - If I had a boat
Maggie reilly- Silver on the tree / angel tears
Mark Knoppfler and James Taylor - Sailing to Philadelphia
Mary Black - Columbus
Men at Work - Down Under
Michelle Shocked - It must be Luff
Moon Mulican - I'LL SAIL MY SHIP ALONE
Morcheeba - The Sea
Mountain - 'Nantucket Sleighride'
"Nick Cave -""The Ship Song
Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay
Paul Simon - American Tune
Peter Frampton - sail away
Peter, Paul & Mary - Big Boat
Phil Ochs—Scorpion Departs, Thresher
Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister
Randy Newman' - Sail away
Rod Stewart - Sailing 4x
Roger & the Goosebumps - 'Gilligan's Island’ to the tune of 'Stairway to Heaven'
Roger Whittaker - The Last Farewell
Ry Cooder/Chieftains- Coast of Malabar
Salty Dick - A Matlow Told Me
Salty Dick - Christopher Columbo
Salty Dick North Atlantic Squadron
Salty Dick - Priests and Nuns
Salty Dick -The Whores of Sailortown
Sandy denny and the strawbs - sail away to the sea
Sonia Dada- Sail Away
Split Enz - Six months in a leaky boat
Stan Rogers - Flowers of Bermuda
Stan Rogers - Fogarty's Cove
Stan Rogers - The Bluenose
Stan Rogers - The wreck of the jeanie c
Stan Rogers - White Squall
Stan Rogers -Barrett's Privateers
Stan Rogers -Make and Break Harbor
Stan Rogers -The Mary Ellen Carter
Stan Rogers,- Sailing Down to Ol' Maui
Sting - Valaparaiso
Sting - Why Should I Cry for You?
Sting The Wild Wild Sea
Styx - Come Sail Away
Styx Come Sail Away
Taj Mahal - Fishin Blues
The beautiful South - I sail this ship alone
The Doors - Land Ho!
The King Singers - The Skye Boat Song
The Muppets (from Muppet Treasure Island) - Sailing for Adventure
Toni Childs - Where the Ocean
Van Halen - Feels So Good
Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
Wagner -Ride of the Valkyries Wagner

 

[toddster]

Thanks a lot. Now I can't forget it.

For some reason, I'm recalling this record that I used to have when I was a kid.
[video=youtube_share;35tQkFqsiz8]http://youtu.be/35tQkFqsiz8[/video]

That's Thurl Ravenscroft - better known as "Tony The Tiger."

It's from a much longer poem by Charles Carryl. I suppose you could sing all of the verses if you had enough rum.

[h=2]The Walloping Window Blind[/h]A capital ship for an ocean trip
Was the Walloping Window Blind.
No gale that blew dismayed her crew
Or troubled the captain's mind.

The man at the wheel was taught to feel
Contempt for the wildest blow.
And it often appeared when the weather had cleared
That he'd been in his bunk below.

The boatswain's mate was very sedate,
Yet fond of amusement too;
And he played hopscotch with the starboard watch
While the captain tickled the crew.

And the gunner we had was apparently mad
For he stood on the cannon's tail,
And fired salutes in the captain's boots
In the teeth of a booming gale.

The captain sat in a commodore's hat
And dined in a royal way
On toasted pigs and pickles and figs
And gummery bread each day.

But the rest of us ate from an odious plate
For the food that was given the crew
Was a number of tons of hot cross buns
Chopped up with sugar and glue.

We all felt ill as mariners will
On a diet that's cheap and rude,
And the poop deck shook when we dipped the cook
In a tub of his gluesome food.

Then nautical pride we laid aside,
And we cast the vessel ashore
On the Gulliby Isles, where the Poohpooh smiles
And the Anagzanders roar.

Composed of sand was that favored land
And trimmed in cinnamon straws;
And pink and blue was the pleasing hue
Of the Tickletoeteasers claws.

We climbed to the edge of a sandy ledge
And soared with the whistling bee,
And we only stopped at four o'clock
For a pot of cinnamon tea.

From dawn to dark, on rubagub bark
We fed, till we all had grown
Uncommonly thin. Then a boat blew in
On a wind from the torriby zone.

She was stubby and square, but we didn't much care,
And we cheerily put to sea.
We plotted a course for the Land of Blue Horse,
Due west 'cross the Peppermint Sea.


Charles Edward Carryl