[78-L] Titanic Songs

[Philip Carli]

There were a number of British releases in 1912 on the sinking; some of them were to benefit the Titanic Relief Fund, set up to benefit crewmen and other service members (and some passengers) whose families were left destitute by the tragedy. These songs, notably "Be British" on Edison-Bell Winner disc and British Edison cylinder, are a little hard to listen to to-day because of their rather strident patriotism, but they gave comfort and support to their original audiences whose various faiths had been completely shattered in ways many did not realize.

In Walter Lord's 1986 THE NIGHT LIVES ON, he mentions how shabbily the ship's legendary orchestra was treated both before and after the event, with at least one family (the parents of violinist Jock Hume) being dunned for uniform expenses by the Liverpool booking agency who had placed their son on the TITANIC.  The body of violinist Wallace Hartley, the ship's prinicipal musician, was recovered by the morgue ship MACKAY BENNETT and eventually given what amounted to a state funeral in his home town of Colne, Lancashire. PC
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Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt did a song in Hebrew about the Titanic that I
believe was released in 1913.

Gregg

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> Were there any made in 1912?  I haven't found any before the hillbilly
> genre of the 1920s that have already been mentioned.  What have I
> missed -or if I'm right, any theories as to why?
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On Apr 8, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:
>
> Here are a few:
>
> After the Sinking of the Titanic - Darby & Tarlton
> The Great Titanic - Roy Acuff & his Smoky Mountain Boys
> Last Scene of the Titanic - Frank Hutchison
> The Sinking of the Titanic - Ernest Stoneman & the Blue Ridge Mountaineers
> Wreck of the Titanic - Doc Hopkins
> It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down - Almanac Singers (Guthrie,
> Seeger, et. al.)
>
> I don't seem to have any songs with Titanic in the title that are in my
> bluegrass library, but these old time country records will certainly
> suffice.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Bill Knowlton wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hey, Gang...help me with country/bluegrass recordings about theTitanic so
> I can get some of 'em on my tribute show next weekend.
>
> Thank yew!
>
>
>
>
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