Whales Alive

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Label: Living Music

Recorded January 1987 in the Cathedral of St.John the Divine, New York City. Additional Recording with Effanel Music remote truck, at Audio West, at Manhattan Sound, at RBY Studio and in the Grand Canyon. Mixed at Living Music Studio.

©℗ 1987 Living Music, Inc.

For recordings of humpback whales, special thanks to the Center for Coastal Studies, the New york Zoological Society, Katherine Payne, Roger Payne, Peter Tyack and Frank Watlington.

Mastered at Masterdisk, New York City.

"This album dedicated to the memory of Frank Watlington of Bermuda. Friend, engineer, and lover of whales, his recordings of humpback whales were the first heard by most of us. They are still unsurpassed. His generosity made them available to all the world."

Track 1: Reading from from D.H.Lawrence, "Whales Weep Not!", from the Complete Poems of D.H.Lawrence. Originally recorded as "Lullaby from the Mother Whale for the Seal Pups" for Paul Winter's Callings (LM 0001).

Track 2: This whale is several miles in the distance.

Track 3: "George" and "Gracie" are the nicknames of the two whales who star in Star Trek IV.

Track 4: Reading "Mother Earth, Her Whales ," from Turtle Island.

Track 7: Reading from "Moby Dick", Chapter XLVII.

Track 9: Reading from "Moby Dick", Chapter CXVI. Originally recorded for Paul Winter's Common Ground (A&M SP-4698).

Track 10: Reading from "The Voyage Home".

© 1987 Earth Music Productions
Made in USA

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