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Here's Sea Fever Sung ByThe .baritone Kennerly Rumford from a Rare 80 rpm shellac record.
Robert Henry Kennerley Rumford (2 September 1870 – 9 March 1957) was an English baritone singer of the 20th century. He was first known for his performances of oratorios, but following his marriage to the well-known contralto singer Clara Butt, he toured with her throughout the English-speaking world singing repertoire of a more popular type. He was twice mentioned in dispatches while serving on the Western Front during the First World War.
Here's Sea Fever Sung ByThe .baritone Kennerly Rumford from a Rare 80 rpm shellac record.
Robert Henry Kennerley Rumford (2 September 1870 – 9 March 1957) was an English baritone singer of the 20th century. He was first known for his performances of oratorios, but following his marriage to the well-known contralto singer Clara Butt, he toured with her throughout the English-speaking world singing repertoire of a more popular type. He was twice mentioned in dispatches while serving on the Western Front during the First World War.


![Loves Old Sweet Song by Edna.Thornton Contralto Rare 78 rpm
Heres Loves Old Sweet Song Sung.by the contralto Edna.Thornton from a rare 78 rpm shellac record recorded in 1913.
Edna Thornton was Born Bradford Yorkshire in, 1875.
Died Worthing, 15 July 1964.
English contralto.
Edna Thornton had a long career with the major British opera companies, particularly as an interpreter of Wagner.
She worked at Covent Garden from 1905 to 1910, appearing in the Ring cycles of 1908 and 1909. These were conducted by Karl Richter, and her roles were Erda and Waltraute. With the Denhof company she added Flosshilde and First Norn.
She toured with the Quinlan and Beecham companies, returning to Covent Garden between 1919 and 1923. After the BNOC was established she worked with it extensively.
Other roles in her repertoire for which she was noted included Dalila and Amneris as well as Brangäne. She also appeared in the premiere of Holsts comic opera The Perfect Fool at Covent Garden in 1923.
James Lynam Molloy (19 August 1837 – 4 February 1909) was an Irish composer, poet, and author. His songs were praised by his contemporaries; one said that he will be remembered, or certainly his songs will, long after the superior and so-called art-songs of to-day are forgotten.[1] Loves Old Sweet Song by Edna.Thornton Contralto Rare 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oIU4V1rUycc/mqdefault.jpg)


![Song Of The Fisherman To The Twin Stars - Hedge Rose sung By John Goss Baritone rare 78 rpm
John Goss (1894-1953) was an English singer who revived interest in traditional folk music, which he orchestrated and sang in his beautiful baritone voice, and thus inspired people like Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger.
Heres Song Of The Fisherman To The Twin Stars - Hedge Rose by Schubert sung By John Goss Baritone from a rare 78 rpm shellac record released around 1927
John Goss was born in Birmingham, England in 1894, the son of a labourer. He worked in a variety of factory jobs, and once led a protest of electrical apprentices. He might have spent his life on the shop-floor, but his fine singing won him a scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford, and by great perseverance he succeeded in building a career for himself; he spent some years studying in Germany, the musical centre at that time, and acquired a broad, humanitarian outlook.*
His family was fiercely working class, and be had difficulty explaining his decision to go into something so refined as music. Thus he determined to devote himself to the revival of folk songs, the music of the people, and to perform these in the factories and union-halls, where working people tended to gather. He was a close friend of the composer Peter Warlock, and on good terms with Benjamin Britten.
After performing far and wide, he came to Canada around 1940; and started giving concerts in Vancouver then. He started a summer school of music on Galiano Island in 1947, at the property known as Lyons. This was at the same time that there was a thriving artistic scene at Arbutus Point Resort, frequented by painters like Molly Lamb Bobak and Jack Shadbolt, so the island must have been a hive of creativity. This was also about the time that Nigel Morgan, head of the B.C. Communist Party, established his Communist retreat and study centre near Retreat Cove.
John Goss, with his pacifist, working-class leanings was also suspected of being a communist. He addressed a peace conference in New York in 1949, in company with other musical figures like Aaron Copland, Dimitri Shostakovich, Paul Robeson, Benjamin Britten and many others. Just as the event was ending, he was approached by the police: they told him he could leave the country immediately or suffer the indignity of being deported.
He left the United States quietly but that was not the end of his problems. There was as much nastiness in Canada; the Vancouver Parks Board terminated his contract in the interest of good public relations, and he had to close the summer-school on Galiano Island. Broken in health he returned to Birmingham, where he died in 1953.[1] Song Of The Fisherman To The Twin Stars - Hedge Rose sung By John Goss Baritone rare 78 rpm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pjSHai0MAvA/mqdefault.jpg)




![Uffa Fox Sailor Yacht Designer & Friend of Prince Philip singing Spanish Ladies & Rule Britannia
Heres Uffa Fox Sailor Yacht Designer & Friend of Prince Philip singing Spanish Ladies & Rule Britannia from a vinyl record of sea shanties and Jack ashore sea songs recorded in 1960.
Uffa Fox, CBE (15 January 1898 – 26 October 1972) was an English boat designer and sailing enthusiast.
He was responsible for many of the developments which have contributed to the modern popularity of dinghy sailing. He first introduced the technique of planing to dinghy racing, and was influential in the introduction of trapezing.
He became a friend of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1949 and they raced together at Cowes Week on many occasions. They raced on Foxs Dragon Fresh Breeze or the Dukes Royal Dragon Bluebottle. He also took the Royal children sailing at Cowes.
Apart from having a highly successful racing, cruising and sailing career, he ran successful boat design and boatbuilding businesses in the south of England. He designed many of the significant classes of boats around today, including the planing International 14, the Foxhound, the Foxcub and Super Foxcub, the Flying Fifteen, the Flying Ten, the National 12, the National 18, the Albacore, the Firefly, the Javelin, the Pegasus Dinghy, the Jollyboat and the Day Sailer. Many of his designs exploited the wartime developments of moulded plywood, extruded aluminium, Tufnol etc..
In addition to dinghies, he designed several keelboats all loosely based on the same concept as the flying fifteen, with separate fin keel and rudder. They were very lightweight compared with other boats of the era. Huff of Arklow for Douglas Heard was 30-0 on the waterline and Flying Fox for Fred Brownlee was 35-0 waterline length.[3]
Uffa Fox designed the Britannia rowboat, used by John Fairfax for the first solo-rowing expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1969.[4] The Britannia was described as the Rolls-Royce of rowboats, made of mahogany. It was self-righting, self-bailing and partly covered.[4] He also designed Britannia II, used by Fairfax and Sylvia Cook to row across the Pacific Ocean in 1971 through 1972.
His character is perhaps best indicated by an escapade whereby he led a group of Sea Scouts, without their parents consent (they thought it was a weekend sailing camp), across the English Channel and up the Seine to within a few kilometres of Paris in a 25 ft open boat.
He was the subject of This Is Your Life in January 1963 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Colston Hall in Bristol. He was also among the crew of the Typhoon, an account of which was written and published by William Washburn Nutting in In the Track of Typhoon (1922). Fox joined the crew in England for her transatlantic return via France, Spain, and the Azores into New York City. Uffa Fox Sailor Yacht Designer & Friend of Prince Philip singing Spanish Ladies & Rule Britannia](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qXROKlos9yQ/mqdefault.jpg)