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Released
  
May 20, 1997 (Canada)

Label
  
Warner Music Canada

Artist
  
Great Big Sea

Producer
  
Danny Greenspoon

Length
  
47:22

Play (1997)
  
Rant and Roar (1998)

Release date
  
20 May 1997

Genres
  
Folk music, Folk rock

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Recorded
  
1997 at The Battery and CBC Studios

Nominations
  
Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group

Similar
  
Sea of No Cares, Turn, Road Rage, The Hard and the Easy, Something Beautiful

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Play is the third studio album by Canadian band Great Big Sea released in May 1997.

Contents

It was belatedly released in Japan on March 9, 2016.

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Track listing

  1. "Ordinary Day" (Alan Doyle, Séan McCann) 3:09
  2. "When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down)" (Ian Telfer, Alan Prosser, John Jones) 3:24
  3. "The Night Pat Murphy Died" (Traditional, arranged by Great Big Sea) 3:02
  4. "How Did We Get from Saying 'I Love You'..." (Alan Doyle) 3:40
  5. "Donkey Riding" (Traditional) 2:26
  6. "Haven't Seen You in a Long Time" (Colin Hay) 2:53
  7. "End of the World" (Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe) 2:41
  8. "General Taylor" (Arranged by Alan Doyle, Séan McCann, Bob Hallett, Darrell Power) 2:53
  9. "Seagulls" (Bob Hallett) 2:10
  10. "Recruiting Sargeant" (Traditional) 3:32
  11. "Greenspond" (Traditional) 3:09
  12. "My Apology" (Séan McCann) 2:39
  13. "Jakey's Gin" (Traditional) 2:54
  14. "Something I Should Know" (Séan McCann) 2:59
  15. "Jolly Roving Tar" (Traditional) 2:59
  16. "Rigadoon" (Sometimes referred to as "Little Beggarman" or "Jolly Beggar Dude") (Alan Doyle, Séan McCann, Bob Hallett, Darrell Power) 3:00

Song information

  • "Recruiting Sargeant" is about Royal Newfoundland Regiment in World War I, and was adapted from an old Scottish traditional song "Twa Recruitin' Sergeants" about the Black Watch Regiment apparently from the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and so consequently the song has some interesting similarities to another traditional army song from the same period, Over the Hills and Far Away. The GBS version is from a play called The Recruiting Officer.
  • "Greenspond" is about Greenspond, Newfoundland and Labrador, a small fishing community on the north east coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
  • Track 16, a bonus, untitled song, is a traditional Irish song which fans refer to as "Little Beggarman", "Rigadoon", or "Jolly Beggar Dude".

    • Songs

    1Ordinary Day3:09
    2When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down)3:23
    3Paddy Murphy3:01

    References

    Play (Great Big Sea album) Wikipedia
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