This entry was posted on April 15, 2012 at 12:44 pm and is filed under Music. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Thank you…this will be an interesting listen, as well as the others you’ve passed on re: Titanic. But, as always I love what you write each morning, more so!
A friend who’s a librarian (and, as it happens, a folkie), prepared this website that shows the influence of passengers’ shipboard status on actual survivorship: http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/titanic.html
Fred,
That was intriguing. What happened to women and children first? There were so many sailors on the lifeboats I wonder if they just pushed the passengers out of the way.
April 15, 2012 at 12:44 pm
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?49vpobtmz9y544m
April 15, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Thank you…this will be an interesting listen, as well as the others you’ve passed on re: Titanic. But, as always I love what you write each morning, more so!
April 15, 2012 at 4:16 pm
You are welcome, Mary. I actually had these songs already in my files just waiting for today.
I appreciare the comments about my writing!
April 15, 2012 at 3:22 pm
A friend who’s a librarian (and, as it happens, a folkie), prepared this website that shows the influence of passengers’ shipboard status on actual survivorship: http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/titanic.html
April 15, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Fred,
That was intriguing. What happened to women and children first? There were so many sailors on the lifeboats I wonder if they just pushed the passengers out of the way.
Thanks for that site!
April 17, 2012 at 12:15 am
Check out Tom Russell’s song: Jack Johnson and the verse about the Titanic, as well as his reference to Leadbelly!
April 17, 2012 at 9:50 am
Thanks, Mark
I might just have that-I’ll check my files.