Shantyman's Day Aboard A Yankee Clipper Ship and similar items

RARE! ORIGINAL 1962 RELEASE ON RECORD! ROLL AND GO: THE SHANTYMAN'S DAY ABOARD A YANKEE CLIPPER. Written and produced by Bill Bonyun. Actual ship sounds and actual recreations of shipboard life, plus a real seaman's story told by Harry Garfield, Master Mariner. Songs performed by Bill Bonyun with singers. Heirloom HL-504 monoraul LP record album and illustrated booklet. Liner notes by Edouard Stackpole, Curator of the Mystic Seaport Museum. Imagine yourself on board an outward bound square rigger, weighing anchor in the middle of the nineteenth century. From your place on the quarter deck you are aware of all the busy harbor sounds. You hear the men singing in the anchor, as they march around the capstan, the tramp of their feet, the clank of the falling pawls....You join the watch below for a taste of fo'c's'l life, hear the sound of the sea against the hull, the groaning timbers as a background for the songs and stories of the sailors during their time off watch ....Listen to sea shanties as they were actually sung aboard the great windjammers-deep water men hurling their weight on the lines and the capstan bars to the rhythm of their forebitter songs-with only the sounds of the sea and the ship and the shouted orders as accompaniment. With an excellent, on-the-spot, narrative explanation of the working of the ship. Finally, life at sea recaptured in a hilarious story told by master yarn spinner, the late Captain Harry Garfield, one of the last of the great sailing masters. A well illustrated booklet with complete song texts and supplementary material accompanies this record. Condition: Record is close to near mint. Cover is VG+ with edge wear and rub marks. No promo or cut-out markings of any kind.