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 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.
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.
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!
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!😂😂😂
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Sea shanties (SHAN-tees) is an underappreciated genre, that RU-vid 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.
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.
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.
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❕❗
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. 💕❤️💕🤠
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
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.
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.
