Thursday, July 2, 2009

Soulful Shrimp Workers 1953

Here's an unusual recording I've been carrying around for some years. I'm posting a link if you'd like to hear an MP3 of it.


Shrimp Song - Shrimp Workers

It would appear that WAGA radio of Atlanta was at the SeaPak Shrimp Company of St. Simons, Georgia, on December 10, 1953.

The shrimp workers very soulfully sing parts of two songs, with an announcer occasionally telling us what's going on.

At the end, as indicated on the label, Les Henrickson, apparently a guy from the radio station, is talking. His piece is very short and cut off quickly.

The record is one-sided and 12 inch, 33 rpm. I did some pop fixing on this and adjusted the volume in one place. The word "Georgia" was about one and a half times the volume of everything else.