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City Lights. After 19 years, Charlie Chaplin's first movie of the talkie era is still silent, yet seems more eloquent than ever (TIME, April...
Ashore again, they convinced NBC that the chanteys were worth recording. This summer, sniffing an "untapped source of American folk music," NBC sent its special events reporter W. W. Chaplin out on the Barnegat with a tape recorder to get some of the songs down for posterity. By that time, following the season north, the Barnegat was working out of Little Egg Harbor...
...Chaplin learned that there are about 100 songs that "belong to the business." Nobody knows how old the songs are. Among the menhaden fishermen, most of them Negroes from the tidewater South, the chanteys have been handed down from father to son, from crew to crew. Chaplin also learned from the Barnegat's song leader, Walter Kegler of Fernandina, Fla., that menhaden fishermen are picked "almost as much for their music as their muscles." The singing has two functions, Kegler explained: it provides a rhythmic pulse for hauling in the seine, and it is "thanksgiving" for a good haul...
...coast-to-coast hookup last week NBC broadcast what Chaplin had heard. To most listeners, the menhaden fishermen's chants, more religious than piscatorial in flavor, had a good deal in common with the best of Negro "spirituals," but they also had a fresh, saltwater tang all their own. Sample (the Barnegat's favorite chant...
City Lights. After 19 years, Charlie Chaplin's first movie of the talkie era is still silent, yet seems more eloquent than ever (TIME, April...