Dear fellow sailing bloggers, I would like to enlist your help in a project. And there's an incentive!
I got to thinking about my favorite sailing songs. Frankly compared to most categories, the list is short. Top 10 Car songs - the list is endless. Top 10 Soccer songs - I could go on forever.
When it comes to songs where sailing is an integral part of the song I really had to scratch my head. I came up with the following list. As you can see I was stretching. Some are just plain lame:
Southern Cross - Crobsy Stills Nash
Sailing - Chris Cross (laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame)
We are sailing - Rod Stewart
Dingle Regatta - The Pogues
Irish Rover - the Pogues with the Dubliners (My personal favorite)
Sloop Jonby - Beach Boys
Change in Latitudes - Jimmy Buffet
Wooden Ships - CSN again
Redemption Song - Bob Marley (Stretching...)
Fog on the Tyne - Can't remember who
I'm shipping up to Boston - Dropkick Murphys
Down by the sea - Men at Work (Their worst song IMHO)
That was it. Pathetic really.
Email me your favorites. Thanks
I don't know about sailing songs as such ... but here in South Africa our favourite song has to be 99 red balloons by goldfinger ... it's pretty much legendary ;)
Posted by: kilps | June 03, 2007 at 04:13 PM
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Posted by: Joe Rouse | June 03, 2007 at 08:17 PM
Fog on the Tyne: Lindisfarne.
Posted by: Peter McGrath | June 04, 2007 at 07:42 AM
I'd have to vote for Enya's Sail Away. I used it in a video, which you can see here:
I also used Rod Stewart's Sailing.
Posted by: AdriftAtSea | June 04, 2007 at 06:13 PM
The link missing from my previous post.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y7u2yLR85sY
Posted by: AdriftAtSea | June 04, 2007 at 06:14 PM
here's some
Gordon Lightfoot—Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald, Ghosts of Cape Horn
Jefferson Starship—Santiago, Wooden Ships
Phil Ochs—Scorpion Departs, Thresher
Doors—Crystal Ship
Cream—Tales of Brave Ulysses
CSN—The Lee Shore
Joan Baez—Spanish Boots
Posted by: will | June 04, 2007 at 08:00 PM
Good lord, I can't believe none of you have heard of Salty Dick's sailing CD. HANDS DOWN, the best sailing CD out there. Here's the link - http://cdbaby.com/cd/saltydick/from/mhn
Listen to the songs. Go buy it now.
So, from that CD, the best songs are:
1 - The Whores of Sailortown
2 - North Atlantic Squadron
3 - Priests and Nuns
4 - Christopher Columbo
5 - A Matlow Told Me
Posted by: Lonnie Bruner | June 05, 2007 at 12:49 AM
"If I had a boat" by Lyle Lovett - great sailing song. "Kiss my ass I bought a boat, I'm going out to sea!"
Posted by: Martha Henderson | June 06, 2007 at 09:18 PM
Son of a Son of a Sailor. Jimmy Buffet. All that is good about the sea and sailing. Freedom, Excitment The sea's in my veins, My persistence remains, I am glad I don't live in a Trailer"
Posted by: Nicholas Crawley | June 06, 2007 at 09:25 PM
What about "Six months in a leaky boat" by Split Enz
Posted by: Justin Dock | June 06, 2007 at 09:28 PM
Sea of Heartbreak..J. Buffet
Capt. of Her Heart...Double
Orinoco Flow..Enya
Cool Change..Little Riv. Band
Sail Away Sweet Sister..Queen
Kokomo...Beach Boys
Come Sail Away..Styx
Pirate..J. Buffet
Posted by: Dean Dietrich | June 06, 2007 at 09:33 PM
"Rock The Boat" By Aaliyah also a great music video to this particular song on a multihull sailing in the Bahamas.
Posted by: Patricia Forrestel | June 06, 2007 at 09:37 PM
fog on the tyne is by the excellent english band lindisfarne.
now let's get randy newman's sail away on some list!
Posted by: steve warren | June 06, 2007 at 09:39 PM
Not sure it's my favorite, but it does date me -- 26 miles by 4 Preps. You know 26 miles across the sea, Santa Catalina is waiting for me!
Posted by: David Hartman | June 06, 2007 at 09:42 PM
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison -
Posted by: Gary Schmidt | June 06, 2007 at 09:57 PM
Try these:
Cool Change - Glen Shorrock/Little River Band.
Son of the Son of a Sailor - Jimmy Buffet.
Dock of the Bay = Otis Redding.
Sailing - Gavin Sutherland, Rod Stewart's version.
South Australia - traditoinal shanty.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot.
Ship of Fools - Rober Hunter and Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead version. s
Posted by: John Ramsay | June 06, 2007 at 09:58 PM
Here you go! "I'LL SAIL MY SHIP ALONE" by Moon Mullican. It's legendary!!!
Posted by: COLT 45 | June 06, 2007 at 10:02 PM
Sailing songs:
Away Rio, Burl Ives
Day Oh (Banana Boat song), Harry Belefonte
Leave her Johnny leave her, Burl Ives
What do you do with a drunken sailor? Burl Ives
Posted by: John Sanford | June 06, 2007 at 10:12 PM
Definitely my favorite:
Brandy, The Looking Glass
... "But my life, my love and my lady is the sea"...
Posted by: Darren Garnier | June 06, 2007 at 10:27 PM
Ghosts of cape Horn, Gordon Lightfoot.
But NOT Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald! After all, I plan to keep floating.
Posted by: Rando | June 06, 2007 at 10:39 PM
"If I had a boat" by Lyle Lovett and Jimmy Buffett
"Mother Ocean" by Jimmy Buffett
Posted by: Jerry Frabutt | June 06, 2007 at 11:04 PM
Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
Jimmy Buffett - The Captain and the Kid
Jimmy Buffett - One Particular Harbor
Posted by: John | June 06, 2007 at 11:35 PM
My son was in the choral group in High School. They did a song called the Sky Boat Song. The King Singers have done it. I think it originated in Scotland. You'll love it. I have it somewhere if you can't find it.
Posted by: Guy Johnston | June 06, 2007 at 11:59 PM
Sloop John B ---Beach boys
Posted by: Ian Webster | June 07, 2007 at 12:01 AM
Sailin' by Cecilio and Kapono (from Hawaii) - "Sailing’s his first love
It keeps him so free"
Midnight Sailing by Kalapana
(e-mail me at [email protected] if you'd like either of these!)
"Lovely Cruise" by Jimmy Buffett
Posted by: Josie Gavieres | June 07, 2007 at 12:21 AM