These songs are very, very old. They were sung by sailors/pirates, etc to help them keep time when they were performing mundane tasks together onboard ships (like hauling in fishing nets, or taking down sails). I grew up with them because I lived in a small town way out on the Atlantic (nearest to where the Titanic went down) and it's our culture. The boys did a great job, and were clearly having a lot of fun (especially Austin hahaha).
Yep yep. The shanty is like a spiritual fire the sailors/pirates, indeed. Had the pleasure of learning "drunken sailor" and sing it in a play while we hauled a sledge. Found a lot of different versions too. Same probably goes for them all. Like many things passed down so many generations
These songs are British with the Royal Navy. I don't know where you live, but unless you are British these are not your songs at all ffs. Why do you think they are singing about Australia? F all to do with America or Canada
@@overthewebb The province of Canada I live in was a British colony before we joined the country. My father and 3 of his siblings were not Canadians at birth, even though they've lived here their whole lives. My city was a major North American port owned and operated by the Brits for a few hundred years at that point. A generation of our young men were decimated fighting in the various British forces during WW1, so many that the King officially discouraged any of them from joining for part 2. Up until immigration started taking off about 20 years ago, we were almost 100 percent the descendants of Irish and English people. We still have a (mostly) Irish accent, although there are some pockets with different U.K. accents. The old timers in my hometown sound like they're straight out of Wexford. After a few drinks, so do I. I'm 3150 kilometres away from Dublin (our sister city). I'm 7,100 kilometres away from Victoria, B.C (on the west coast of my own country). 2.25 times the distance. My grandfather was a soldier that helped guard the king's family for a couple of months during WW2. I met the queen when I was a child. I'll claim these songs if I damn well please.
Sea shanties developed as work songs aboard ships. They gave the men a rhythm to work to when doing heavy work like raising seals. When there's a strong beat or an exclamation (like 'Huh!'), all the men on the rope (or whatever) would pull at the same time. Of this collection. 'What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?' is perhaps the best known.
this one ALWAYS gets me dancing and singing along no matter how many times I've heard it. Even my grand children, ages 9, 5 and 4 got excited when they heard this and now sing along....Home Free can sing ANYTHING and make it THEIRS.
How good are these guys? The fun & energy in this is infectious. This was done during quarantine so none of the guys were even together. The editing of this was great & was done in the Tik Tok style. Love all the guys parts, with Chance starting first, then Rob & Tim's rumbling bass underlying it all. Austin is in the red outfit. Adam's beatboxing is phenomenal as always including sea swells & castanets. Amazing how he increased the tempo from one song to another. They do this medley of songs in their live concerts.
This is one of my favorite Home Free videos. Sea shanties are work songs.These are REAL old sea shanty songs that sailors would sing to make their work tasks on the tall ships like the pirate kind of ships easier. Those ships travels long ago would be very long and boring for crew working on the ships. This is why the sea shanties came from. Adam Chance the first guy signing in the video loves sea shanties and it was his idea for Home Free to make a medley of sea shanties video. Tim Foust the bass is dressed as Jack Sparrow, Austin the guy dressed in gold turban and red shirt is dressed as Legendary Arabian Sailor Sinbad. Adam Rupp has a different mug in each song. If you pay attention closely, you can notice the beat of each song is faster and faster as if you are on a ship on the ocean going faster and faster. Also in the last song, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of the ship going through the waves on the ocean.
When Adam goes off on the castinets, it slays me. This is pronounced shanty like shanty town back in the depression, but Is supposed to be spelled Chanty. These kind of traditional songs weren't sung BY seamen, but about them or the ships they sailed on. They're stories told in song of particular kinds of vessel or of famous incidents on the sea.
Quarantine gold! This song has gone viral! Check the number of ticktock dances! The highlight of their concerts when they do this, was part of a live stream during last Christmas concert with them leading us in song!
Great reaction! Hope you will give their Hillbilly Bone and Rob and Austin's Nessum Dorma a listen. It seems their is no end to their talent! Incredible!
I suggest that you react to Rob and Austin performing opera, “Nessum Dorma “. It’s on Austin’s channel. Rob will blow you away with his jaw dropping performance. His tone is rich and warm, and he has so much power. Truly impressive.
When I was 4 years old I couldn't go to school yet, I could however run the record player. My Mom let me play what I wanted. I loved the shanties. Thanks for sharing this great music.
My husband used to sailboat race and the sea 🌊 is just in blood. I found this last year and he LOVES it! He knew most of the songs already! So if he gets a little tipsy, lol, THIS is what he plays on his phone and sings (badly), with it!😂😂😂
I agree that when watching their videos, headphones are a must, but I've seen them live and you don't just hear the music, you FEEL it! Especially when Tim goes down in the depths, or Adam does some of his bass sounds.
So glad to see you back with the boys. This is such a fun, boppy medley. Love all their goofy getups. And Adam's castanets in Santiana blow me away every time.
The first time I heard this medley, I only knew the first two songs - Wellerman and Drunken Sailor. Now I love all of them, but Santiana is my personal favorite.
Jamel, these boys did this one while in quarantine too....Chance was there in Los Angeles, Tim & Austim at their houses in Nashville, and Rob & Adam at their homes in Minnesota ! This one sure caught the publics fancy...over 30 million views I think this is their #1 video now
Almost Kevin, Ring of Fire is still out in front but this one is gaining ground fast 😉 or should I say cutting through the water quickly to pull out in front
@@bobemch5614 it'll overtake by Summer most likely.....and to think Chance had to push hard to get them to do it.....he made all of them a bundle of LOOT !!
This was so great! During civid lockdown! A favorite during lockdown was "Meet In The Middle", it was so cleverly done! You'd enjoy it, on your own, or in reaction! ❤
Thank you for another great reaction! Home Free has a couple of new songs that I think you would love. "Listen to the Music by the Doobie Brothers and The Mississippi Squirrel Revival by Ray Stevens.
Great Reaction!! 1-Wellerman 2- Drunken Sailor 3- Leave Her Johnny 4-Cape Cod Girls 5- Santiana This was Chance’s baby he loves sea shanties he brought the idea to the guys they were unsure but did it and it baca me one of their biggest hits .Tim couldn’t move much he was standing in a boat Adam amazing with his invisible castanets and sea swells and Rob was amazing
This was one of their lockdown videos. Their producer told them what equipment to buy so they could record and film at their homes and send everything to him. He does the editing and puts the videos together.
Many of these are traditional songs. The words were changed sometimes, but the Medley remained the same. Sea shanties were used as not only a means of entertainment but to keep the crew in time while doing a job that required it, such as hoisting an anchor, or hauling a yardarm (horizontal wooden spar from which a sail was hung) up the mast. Or even to relieve the boredom of scrubbing down the deck with sea water and holy stones (called such because they were a stone, roughly the size of the holy bible) used to smooth and clean the deck. You didn't want rough spots on a wooden deck, where one might pick up,a sliver, as the typical seaman went barefoot. Only the ships officers would be shod.
My condolences on losing your brother. 🎶💕 Music definitely helped me through the grief when I lost my son and husband! That's when I discovered Home Free, actually! They'll never know how many people they've helped over the years!
Oh, and when they're live, basses like Tim and Geoff Castellucci can blow out speakers. I know someone who went to a Voiceplay show and dust was coming down out of the rafters because of the vibrations.
Chanteys were work songs and only sung while doing the particular task the song was designed for. It was considered bad luck to sing them elsewhere. For those of us who remember Popeye whistling "Blow the Man Down", it was a halyard chantey used for raising and lowering sails. Fun trivia!
I only knew one song. Yes, this was during Covid so they were all at their own homes. Tim didn’t move much as he was standing in a boat! Chance (first singer) is a huge fan of sea shanties so he brought the idea to the boys. It’s been a huge hit for them. Love Tim’s low notes. Good reaction Jamel. 😄
Yaaas!!! You are making my night Darlin' this is a great Quarantine video of theirs. Fun too and dang Adams castinets sound. Tim is in his brother in laws boat at their house. Imagine looking out your window seeing him out there 😅😅 The Wellerman (1st song) is pretty famous of the Sea Shanties. Song sung by sailors to keep time on the ships while they work. They didn't do it but "yo ho blow the man down" is another famous one. I love Home Free and what's great is they don't block their videos. Thanks for the reaction man ✌🏻&🩷
Yes! I so agree. Saw them in Sept. 2022 and the concert was fun but I think the sound is better recorded. It may be the headphones. It may be that they can use loops . I don't know but I do prefer music through headphones rather than live too.
Sometimes at a concert it really depends on where you're sitting in relation to the speakers. And, for that matter who is doing the mixing to the speakers.
Check out their live version. He is sitting up in the back as if he has a drum set. That first thump thump beat, he acts as if he I'd really thumping a kettle drum but there's nothing but air.
Thanks for the reaction. Great, as always. But at the start of the video you commented about Adam Chance using an instrument. I'm pretty sure the sound we are hearing is Adam Rupp beatboxing, and the guitar is just a prop. The same sound is heard in other parts of the video and no one is pounding on anything. Just my opinion.
Sea shanties (SHAN-tees) is an underappreciated genre, that CZcams has partially revived. The songs they sang were The Wellerman, The Drunken Sailor, Leave Her Johnny, Cape Cod Girls, and Santy Anno (sometimes Santiano, Santy Anna, or some other spelling). I highly recommend getting into shanties. I have never heard one that wasn't a banger. Some of the best shanty groups are The Jolly Rogers, The Poxy Boggards, Schooner Fare, and of course, Stan Rogers. Some good songs other than these to start with would be Nova Scotia Farewell, Roll the Old Chariot Along, Lager Than Life, Finnegan's Wake, Haul Away for Rosie, and Northwest Passage.
Other gentleman try to do the same type of commentary but yours is the best thank you and the word is Auntie with SH in front of it shanty truly folk music singing of times when ships are made of wood and men We’re made of iron
Idk if we could make it through a concert with headphones 😂😂 I was at a fair they did in the back and Tim and Adam vibrated the ground with their low notes. When sitting down your whole body vibrates. If you haven't seen them you need to whenever they are close by
A great idea from Chance who likes a lot of those Sea shanty songs and in my opinion really has the voice and appearance for them. It is made in quarantine period. Besides each having their great part in this medley, I really love the beatboxing with castanets sound! It was done in the TikTok style, which is why I regularly see / hear come by at the TikTok videos
Have you ever heard of the Gulf Coast Cotton Port Shanty-Mart theory of blues, jazz, and rock'n'roll? Back before there was electricity or steam engines, the only way to move heavy things was to get a bunch of men pulling on a rope. But they had to pull together, in time with each other. So work chanties - shanties - came about. Every culture had their own, based on their own folk music. In the 1800's when ships were picking up cotton from the American cotton ports - basically Virginia south around Florida and along the Gulf cost to Texas - the ship's crews were mostly Irish sailors and the longshormen were mostly Africans - slaves in the early part of the century, free men doing the same work but getting paid for it in the latter. So when the ship pulled in and the crew - mostly Irish - sang their shanties - based on Irish folk music - while they unloaded their cargo. The longshorment - mostly West African - listened, then sang their shanties - based on West African folk music - while they loaded up the ship. The Irish crew heard the African shanties and incorporated them into the songs they sang at their next port. Meanwhile the longshormen incorporated some of the Irish shanties into their own by the time the next ship arrived. So, over a couple of thousand miles of coastline, a new genre of shanty evolved, a combination of Irish and West African folk music. New Orleans was the biggest port, and everything eventually came there, so ultimately this new genre grew in NOLA. And eventually became Jazz, which migrated up the Mississippi to St. Louis and Chicago and became The Blues, and eventually, Rock-n-Roll.
A lot of these are an old Timey folk songs of the past that is part of Celtic and Gaelic backgrounds a lot of Irish and Scottish overtones. Just an FYI enjoy your videos Jamal keep up the good work say hello to your wife and brothers for along with your mama give her a hug you take care and be safe. 💕❤️💕🤠
Long time watcher, first time writer - we share a delight in many songs, artists and sounds (‘go P-Thugg’) - have you explored Africa? Think you’d enjoy Wari Vo (Ben Zabo), Coulibaly (Mariam and Amadou), Heartbeats (Nneka) - great way to spend last day of Black History Month - with best wishes from the great white north
You think it was weird two years ago for you to hear "Wellerman" everywhere? The song was written about the city I live in (Dunedin, new Zealand) - the site of the Weller Brothers' whaling station is about fifteen miles from where I live. To have everyone around the world singing about it was very odd. These guys are great - even though you can hear the autotuning 😕. Sea shanties were the traditional songs sung by sailors in the 16th-19th century.
Mostly for about 40 or 50 years in the 19th century; that was the golden age of sea shanties; very little before that, apparently - despite what you see in the movies ... !
These are actually songs that anyone out on voyage back in those days (example: pirates) would sing on the ships to make time pass and make the work seem less hard❕❗
I would say you would have to listen to a lot of Irish songs to get what a lot of these songs The song What Will Ee Do With A Drunken Sailor which was the 2nd song they did is done by The Irish Rovers I believe
Hi my friend great reaction - please take care with home free videos Maggie Renee has just got a red strike for 1 of there videos must have sold copyrights to their music love and respect from the UK 👍👍👍👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍
Check out a Canadian Band named Spirit of the West! Their song The Crawl and Home for a Rest have a real "shanty" type vibe. Unfortunately their lead singer passed away a few years ago from early onset Dementia :( . I think you would probably really dig some of their music. They were very popular in Western Canada from the late 80's to the 2000's.
FILM: "Fisherman's Friends" Watch this, IMDB rating 7.0 and worth a reaction, to get a feel of sea shanty tradition. A tradition still very strong in parts of the UK, a sailing folk singing sometimes similar to chain-gang prison songs. Listening to this sung for real, especially in very small venues where you are encouraged to join along, is very atmospheric.
Nice! ... Sorry to go off topic, but have you done the legendary "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie (aka "Alice's Restaurant Massacree") yet? If not, I highly recommend. I think you'd dig it a lot. It's live, even on the album, and if I'm not mistaken, it was never done the same twice in performance, always with some variation.
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British folk music.
Check out British band the fisherman's friends. They have had 2 movies made about them.
These songs are very, very old. They were sung by sailors/pirates, etc to help them keep time when they were performing mundane tasks together onboard ships (like hauling in fishing nets, or taking down sails). I grew up with them because I lived in a small town way out on the Atlantic (nearest to where the Titanic went down) and it's our culture.
The boys did a great job, and were clearly having a lot of fun (especially Austin hahaha).
Yep yep. The shanty is like a spiritual fire the sailors/pirates, indeed. Had the pleasure of learning "drunken sailor" and sing it in a play while we hauled a sledge. Found a lot of different versions too. Same probably goes for them all. Like many things passed down so many generations
Yes. Always liked hearing each when I was a kid. Good to hear again. Brings back memories.
These songs; however are not old. These are not authentic shanty’s
These songs are British with the Royal Navy. I don't know where you live, but unless you are British these are not your songs at all ffs. Why do you think they are singing about Australia? F all to do with America or Canada
@@overthewebb The province of Canada I live in was a British colony before we joined the country. My father and 3 of his siblings were not Canadians at birth, even though they've lived here their whole lives. My city was a major North American port owned and operated by the Brits for a few hundred years at that point. A generation of our young men were decimated fighting in the various British forces during WW1, so many that the King officially discouraged any of them from joining for part 2.
Up until immigration started taking off about 20 years ago, we were almost 100 percent the descendants of Irish and English people. We still have a (mostly) Irish accent, although there are some pockets with different U.K. accents. The old timers in my hometown sound like they're straight out of Wexford. After a few drinks, so do I.
I'm 3150 kilometres away from Dublin (our sister city). I'm 7,100 kilometres away from Victoria, B.C (on the west coast of my own country). 2.25 times the distance.
My grandfather was a soldier that helped guard the king's family for a couple of months during WW2. I met the queen when I was a child.
I'll claim these songs if I damn well please.
Sea shanties developed as work songs aboard ships. They gave the men a rhythm to work to when doing heavy work like raising seals. When there's a strong beat or an exclamation (like 'Huh!'), all the men on the rope (or whatever) would pull at the same time. Of this collection. 'What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?' is perhaps the best known.
The "beat" is determined by the waves. Pull with the wave:)
Who would have ever thought we would be jamming to a sea shanty?!? LOL Only Home Free could make people do that! Great reaction Jamel Peace and love
I mean, I love sea shantys. I have an entire playlist dedicated to them lol. This has got to be one of my favorites, though.
this one ALWAYS gets me dancing and singing along no matter how many times I've heard it. Even my grand children, ages 9, 5 and 4 got excited when they heard this and now sing along....Home Free can sing ANYTHING and make it THEIRS.
How good are these guys? The fun & energy in this is infectious. This was done during quarantine so none of the guys were even together. The editing of this was great & was done in the Tik Tok style. Love all the guys parts, with Chance starting first, then Rob & Tim's rumbling bass underlying it all. Austin is in the red outfit. Adam's beatboxing is phenomenal as always including sea swells & castanets. Amazing how he increased the tempo from one song to another. They do this medley of songs in their live concerts.
been to two live shows and both time this was the curtain call song
This is one of my favorite Home Free videos. Sea shanties are work songs.These are REAL old sea shanty songs that sailors would sing to make their work tasks on the tall ships like the pirate kind of ships easier. Those ships travels long ago would be very long and boring for crew working on the ships. This is why the sea shanties came from. Adam Chance the first guy signing in the video loves sea shanties and it was his idea for Home Free to make a medley of sea shanties video. Tim Foust the bass is dressed as Jack Sparrow, Austin the guy dressed in gold turban and red shirt is dressed as Legendary Arabian Sailor Sinbad. Adam Rupp has a different mug in each song. If you pay attention closely, you can notice the beat of each song is faster and faster as if you are on a ship on the ocean going faster and faster. Also in the last song, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of the ship going through the waves on the ocean.
When Adam goes off on the castinets, it slays me. This is pronounced shanty like shanty town back in the depression, but Is supposed to be spelled Chanty. These kind of traditional songs weren't sung BY seamen, but about them or the ships they sailed on. They're stories told in song of particular kinds of vessel or of famous incidents on the sea.
Quarantine gold! This song has gone viral! Check the number of ticktock dances! The highlight of their concerts when they do this, was part of a live stream during last Christmas concert with them leading us in song!
Talent level is off the chart. Beat boxing Adam is killing it
Love this one and their version of Everbody Walking this Land! They're all good, but those 2 are my favorites.
Great reaction! Hope you will give their Hillbilly Bone and Rob and Austin's Nessum Dorma a listen. It seems their is no end to their talent! Incredible!
I suggest that you react to Rob and Austin performing opera, “Nessum Dorma “. It’s on Austin’s channel. Rob will blow you away with his jaw dropping performance. His tone is rich and warm, and he has so much power. Truly impressive.
When I was 4 years old I couldn't go to school yet, I could however run the record player. My Mom let me play what I wanted. I loved the shanties. Thanks for sharing this great music.
My husband used to sailboat race and the sea 🌊 is just in blood. I found this last year and he LOVES it! He knew most of the songs already! So if he gets a little tipsy, lol, THIS is what he plays on his phone and sings (badly), with it!😂😂😂
I agree that when watching their videos, headphones are a must, but I've seen them live and you don't just hear the music, you FEEL it! Especially when Tim goes down in the depths, or Adam does some of his bass sounds.
So glad to see you back with the boys. This is such a fun, boppy medley. Love all their goofy getups. And Adam's castanets in Santiana blow me away every time.
We saw Home Free do this song at an auditorium shaking volume last June. Phenomenal. Go if you get a chance!
I'm fascinated by the bass voice. I swear that's coming from 50 feet underground.
The first time I heard this medley, I only knew the first two songs - Wellerman and Drunken Sailor. Now I love all of them, but Santiana is my personal favorite.
I only knew Drunken Sailor, & I'm pretty old!
Jamel, these boys did this one while in quarantine too....Chance was there in Los Angeles, Tim & Austim at their houses in Nashville, and Rob & Adam at their homes in Minnesota ! This one sure caught the publics fancy...over 30 million views I think this is their #1 video now
Kevin, Ring of Fire is still number one. I just checked. But this moved up so quickly.
Almost Kevin, Ring of Fire is still out in front but this one is gaining ground fast 😉 or should I say cutting through the water quickly to pull out in front
How many of those views are people practicing the Wellerman dance? I don;t expect an answer, it's just a suggestion)
@@bobemch5614 it'll overtake by Summer most likely.....and to think Chance had to push hard to get them to do it.....he made all of them a bundle of LOOT !!
They jumped on the bandwagon started by Scottish postman Nathan Evans.
This was so great! During civid lockdown! A favorite during lockdown was "Meet In The Middle", it was so cleverly done! You'd enjoy it, on your own, or in reaction! ❤
Thank you for another great reaction! Home Free has a couple of new songs that I think you would love. "Listen to the Music by the Doobie Brothers and The Mississippi Squirrel Revival by Ray Stevens.
They still need to do a full cover of Santiana. I’d pay good money for it.
Sea shanties are tier music, such fun to listen to. Wonderful arrangement they did. Some of my favorites were used.
IMHO this is one of their best. I've listened to this many times and it ALWAYS brings a smile to my face and a tapping toe.😊❤
Great Reaction!!
1-Wellerman
2- Drunken Sailor
3- Leave Her Johnny
4-Cape Cod Girls
5- Santiana
This was Chance’s baby he loves sea shanties he brought the idea to the guys they were unsure but did it and it baca me one of their biggest hits .Tim couldn’t move much he was standing in a boat Adam amazing with his invisible castanets and sea swells and Rob was amazing
Adam Rupp with the castanets is excelent
You can’t help but move to this!!!❤
I love these guys. My Dad used to sing this when I was a child. Brings back very happy memories. Thanks Jamel. 👍
This was one of their lockdown videos. Their producer told them what equipment to buy so they could record and film at their homes and send everything to him. He does the editing and puts the videos together.
These guys are great! And, it makes me happy to see that you're willing to listen to different kinds of music too.
Many of these are traditional songs. The words were changed sometimes, but the Medley remained the same. Sea shanties were used as not only a means of entertainment but to keep the crew in time while doing a job that required it, such as hoisting an anchor, or hauling a yardarm (horizontal wooden spar from which a sail was hung) up the mast. Or even to relieve the boredom of scrubbing down the deck with sea water and holy stones (called such because they were a stone, roughly the size of the holy bible) used to smooth and clean the deck. You didn't want rough spots on a wooden deck, where one might pick up,a sliver, as the typical seaman went barefoot. Only the ships officers would be shod.
Hey Jamel, love your reaction. I lost my brother a week ago and this was one of his favorites. I smiled and cried. Thank you for my remembrance
My condolences on losing your brother. 🎶💕 Music definitely helped me through the grief when I lost my son and husband! That's when I discovered Home Free, actually! They'll never know how many people they've helped over the years!
One of my favorites of theirs. Peace, Love!!
I love Tim as Captain Jack Sparrow, and Austin as Sinbad. Way to funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣
OMG A concert with headphones would be amazing 👏 😍 Fantastic reaction 😍
Sea Shanties are my happy place. Must be the New Englander in me.
Oh, and when they're live, basses like Tim and Geoff Castellucci can blow out speakers. I know someone who went to a Voiceplay show and dust was coming down out of the rafters because of the vibrations.
Tim has been known to knock the leftover glitter and confetti out of auditorium ceilings, too.
yes sir! great reaction...shower us with home free...lol
This was one of the first songs during Covid.
You can pronounce Shanty any way you want. Always buckled in for HF~
LOL, this is one of my favorites! I love Home Free! Try out the Butts Medley.
I love these guys!
This made my night! So awesome to see you revisiting Home Free!
One of my favorite parts was Adam's "casta-nots" (castanets).
I love Irish pub songs. Drunken Sailor is mine and my sisters fave karaoke song. Great crowd pleaser.
Wow. I have to go back and watch the other one. Never heard of them, but what great voices ❤
I didn’t know any of these songs either, but aren’t they great? I love Home Free!
The truest modern Shanty was the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
As much as I love Gordon Lightfoot, Barrett's Privateers is more of a shanty. They were both released in the same year.
@@b.w.6535 Just FYI: actual 'shanties' are work songs; neither of those qualify. Great songs, though.
@@nozecone Thank you
@@b.w.6535 must check it
@@nozecone I know, I grew up with shanties. But it's got more in common with shanties than the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Chanteys were work songs and only sung while doing the particular task the song was designed for. It was considered bad luck to sing them elsewhere. For those of us who remember Popeye whistling "Blow the Man Down", it was a halyard chantey used for raising and lowering sails. Fun trivia!
"Whistling"?? Not on board a ship, I hope!
I love this one .... They're just so great!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I only knew one song. Yes, this was during Covid so they were all at their own homes. Tim didn’t move much as he was standing in a boat! Chance (first singer) is a huge fan of sea shanties so he brought the idea to the boys. It’s been a huge hit for them. Love Tim’s low notes. Good reaction Jamel. 😄
Loved it.
Yaaas!!! You are making my night Darlin' this is a great Quarantine video of theirs. Fun too and dang Adams castinets sound. Tim is in his brother in laws boat at their house. Imagine looking out your window seeing him out there 😅😅
The Wellerman (1st song) is pretty famous of the Sea Shanties. Song sung by sailors to keep time on the ships while they work. They didn't do it but "yo ho blow the man down" is another famous one. I love Home Free and what's great is they don't block their videos. Thanks for the reaction man ✌🏻&🩷
The Wellerman is the only one that is not a real shanty; i.e., work song.
@@nozecone it's probably one of the most done too.
Yes! I so agree. Saw them in Sept. 2022 and the concert was fun but I think the sound is better recorded. It may be the headphones. It may be that they can use loops . I don't know but I do prefer music through headphones rather than live too.
Sometimes at a concert it really depends on where you're sitting in relation to the speakers. And, for that matter who is doing the mixing to the speakers.
Check out their live version. He is sitting up in the back as if he has a drum set. That first thump thump beat, he acts as if he I'd really thumping a kettle drum but there's nothing but air.
You’ll not find this at Disneyland. These are pub songs. And done very well.
Great reaction ❤ nice to see you back 😀
More Jamel More! Please!
Was hoping for a cover of the Pogues' Sea Shanty. Oh well, this will do nicely.
These are old English sailor songs! That color on you is stunning, btw. 😊
English ... American ... Canadian ... Irish ... Caribbean ... Australian ... New Zealandian .... The seas were international.
They put a great live show!
Thanks for the reaction. Great, as always. But at the start of the video you commented about Adam Chance using an instrument. I'm pretty sure the sound we are hearing is Adam Rupp beatboxing, and the guitar is just a prop. The same sound is heard in other parts of the video and no one is pounding on anything. Just my opinion.
You should check out stan Rogers “northwest passage” . He’s an icon of Canada, and this song is the second official national anthem of Newfoundland
Sea shanties (SHAN-tees) is an underappreciated genre, that CZcams has partially revived. The songs they sang were The Wellerman, The Drunken Sailor, Leave Her Johnny, Cape Cod Girls, and Santy Anno (sometimes Santiano, Santy Anna, or some other spelling). I highly recommend getting into shanties. I have never heard one that wasn't a banger. Some of the best shanty groups are The Jolly Rogers, The Poxy Boggards, Schooner Fare, and of course, Stan Rogers. Some good songs other than these to start with would be Nova Scotia Farewell, Roll the Old Chariot Along, Lager Than Life, Finnegan's Wake, Haul Away for Rosie, and Northwest Passage.
Other gentleman try to do the same type of commentary but yours is the best thank you and the word is Auntie with SH in front of it shanty truly folk music singing of times when ships are made of wood and men We’re made of iron
LOL - depends how you pronounce "Auntie" ... !
I was hoping that would not be a problem I’m glad you chuckle though
What we need are a few taverns in the US where people join in, in songs like this or Irish pub songs or maybe Scottish without the bar fights..
Hi Jamel. I love this one. Thanks❤❤❤❤
Idk if we could make it through a concert with headphones 😂😂 I was at a fair they did in the back and Tim and Adam vibrated the ground with their low notes.
When sitting down your whole body vibrates. If you haven't seen them you need to whenever they are close by
A great idea from Chance who likes a lot of those Sea shanty songs and in my opinion really has the voice and appearance for them. It is made in quarantine period. Besides each having their great part in this medley, I really love the beatboxing with castanets sound! It was done in the TikTok style, which is why I regularly see / hear come by at the TikTok videos
If you want to see amazing editing, you should watch Meet in the Middle. Another Covid video. They did amazing work during that time.
Just a little side note. Did any of you see that beatboxer Adam kept changing his beer mug for each song.
Rupp is the star of this one. Castanets with his mouth?! Unbelievable😮
Oh, just saw them live and headphones ain't got nothing on them live! Sheesh 😳🤯
Have you ever heard of the Gulf Coast Cotton Port Shanty-Mart theory of blues, jazz, and rock'n'roll?
Back before there was electricity or steam engines, the only way to move heavy things was to get a bunch of men pulling on a rope. But they had to pull together, in time with each other. So work chanties - shanties - came about. Every culture had their own, based on their own folk music. In the 1800's when ships were picking up cotton from the American cotton ports - basically Virginia south around Florida and along the Gulf cost to Texas - the ship's crews were mostly Irish sailors and the longshormen were mostly Africans - slaves in the early part of the century, free men doing the same work but getting paid for it in the latter. So when the ship pulled in and the crew - mostly Irish - sang their shanties - based on Irish folk music - while they unloaded their cargo. The longshorment - mostly West African - listened, then sang their shanties - based on West African folk music - while they loaded up the ship. The Irish crew heard the African shanties and incorporated them into the songs they sang at their next port. Meanwhile the longshormen incorporated some of the Irish shanties into their own by the time the next ship arrived.
So, over a couple of thousand miles of coastline, a new genre of shanty evolved, a combination of Irish and West African folk music. New Orleans was the biggest port, and everything eventually came there, so ultimately this new genre grew in NOLA.
And eventually became Jazz, which migrated up the Mississippi to St. Louis and Chicago and became The Blues, and eventually, Rock-n-Roll.
That was fun
Just listen to that beatboxing!😮
A lot of these are an old Timey folk songs of the past that is part of Celtic and Gaelic backgrounds a lot of Irish and Scottish overtones. Just an FYI enjoy your videos Jamal keep up the good work say hello to your wife and brothers for along with your mama give her a hug you take care and be safe. 💕❤️💕🤠
Long time watcher, first time writer - we share a delight in many songs, artists and sounds (‘go P-Thugg’) - have you explored Africa? Think you’d enjoy Wari Vo (Ben Zabo), Coulibaly (Mariam and Amadou), Heartbeats (Nneka) - great way to spend last day of Black History Month - with best wishes from the great white north
You think it was weird two years ago for you to hear "Wellerman" everywhere? The song was written about the city I live in (Dunedin, new Zealand) - the site of the Weller Brothers' whaling station is about fifteen miles from where I live. To have everyone around the world singing about it was very odd. These guys are great - even though you can hear the autotuning 😕. Sea shanties were the traditional songs sung by sailors in the 16th-19th century.
Mostly for about 40 or 50 years in the 19th century; that was the golden age of sea shanties; very little before that, apparently - despite what you see in the movies ... !
Good to see you still around bro!
Any of these men can take the lead.
Another great pandemic video. This is so catchy. This is amazing.❤️❤️❤️
These are actually songs that anyone out on voyage back in those days (example: pirates) would sing on the ships to make time pass and make the work seem less hard❕❗
These songs are from when the ships where made of wood and the men where made of steal. Now the ships are steal and the men are made of wood….
Love these guys. Hope you react to more Home Free bro.
If you like “folk” music, you need to react to the band Heilung and their video Norupo. It will be well worth your time!
I would say you would have to listen to a lot of Irish songs to get what a lot of these songs
The song What Will Ee Do With A Drunken Sailor which was the 2nd song they did is done by The Irish Rovers I believe
I only knew 2 of these songs. Not everybody knows these old sea shanties.
Hi my friend great reaction - please take care with home free videos Maggie Renee has just got a red strike for 1 of there videos must have sold copyrights to their music love and respect from the UK 👍👍👍👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman aka Grateful Dawg did a few sea shanties.
very good
Check out a Canadian Band named Spirit of the West! Their song The Crawl and Home for a Rest have a real "shanty" type vibe. Unfortunately their lead singer passed away a few years ago from early onset Dementia :( . I think you would probably really dig some of their music. They were very popular in Western Canada from the late 80's to the 2000's.
I recognise a few of these as Old English fisherman songs. That's what you should check out. If you can be bothered.
FILM: "Fisherman's Friends"
Watch this, IMDB rating 7.0 and worth a reaction, to get a feel of sea shanty tradition. A tradition still very strong in parts of the UK, a sailing folk singing sometimes similar to chain-gang prison songs. Listening to this sung for real, especially in very small venues where you are encouraged to join along, is very atmospheric.
Cool.
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I hope you've been doing alright lately Jamel. I hope we all do alright.
Nice! ... Sorry to go off topic, but have you done the legendary "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie (aka "Alice's Restaurant Massacree") yet? If not, I highly recommend. I think you'd dig it a lot. It's live, even on the album, and if I'm not mistaken, it was never done the same twice in performance, always with some variation.
Now that you’ve reacted to this, you have to do Hoist The Colors by Voiceplay