William Main Doerflinger

William Main Doerflinger 1909-2000,[1][2][3] author of "Shantymen and Shanty Boys",[4] more recently re-published in paperback as "Songs of the Sailorman and Lumberman"[5] The book resulting from his undergraduate work collecting shanties and sea songs from old sailors and lumberjacks while he studied at Princeton and subsequent collecting afterwards. He collected songs in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, New England, and New York. He was in the US army Psychological Warfare Branch serving in North Africa, Italy & France in WW2. Later posted to the US Embassy in Rome, and more recently as a book publishing editor in New York. His songs are acknowledged as a source for the seminal "Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill[6]

Wikipedia references include South Australia (shanty), Leaving of Liverpool (shanty) (the prime source thereof was collected by Doerflinger[7]) and entry on his son Thomas Doerflinger.

The Old Salt Blog et al.[8] refer to "The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions at the Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor"[9][10][11]

His other interest, as a member of the "International Brotherhood of Magicians" was magic, which prompted his writing "Magic Catalogue", a book on the subject[12]

References

  1. ↑ Mudcat Cafe Obit
  2. ↑ Folk Music Journal Vol. 8, No. 2 (2002), pp. 258-260
  3. ↑ New York Times Obit
  4. ↑ "Shantymen and Shanty Boys" the Macmillan Company, New York 1951
  5. ↑ "Songs of the Sailorman and Lumberman" Meyer Books, 1990 ISBN 0-916638-40-5
  6. ↑ "Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill, P420 Routledge, Keegen & Paul 1961 OCLC 59001714
  7. ↑ FolkJam webpage on "leaving of Liverpool"
  8. ↑ The Old Salt Blog
  9. ↑ The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions at the Noble Maritime Collection at Snug Harbor
  10. ↑ Plaque commemorating his contribution to the canon of sea and lumber shanties
  11. ↑ FolkJam website
  12. ↑ "Magic Catalogue" Dutton Books 1977 ISBN 0876902727
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