Mutiny! Concept Recording

  • Produced and Directed by David Essex.

    Book by Richard Crane
    Music by David Essex

    1983



    • Fletcher Christian . . . . . . David Essex
      Captain Bligh . . . . . . Frank Finlay
      Mr. Fryer . . . . . . Victor Spinetti
      The Bos'n . . . . . . Nicky Henson
      Cabin Boy . . . . . . Charles Mindenhall
      Miamiti . . . . . . Doreen Chanter

      Featured members of the Bounty's crew:
      Glyn Bailey, Bob Davenport, Richard Manuel, Paddy Wilkes and Stanley Fleet.
      Orchestral score, Conductor and Musical Director . . . . . . John Cameron
      Assistant Musical Director . . . . . . Paul Maguire
      The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Leader . . . . . . Barry Griffiths
      The Ship's Band and Chamber Orchestra Leader . . . . . . Pat Halling
      Choir . . . . . . The Ambrosian Singers Directed by John McCarthy
      Orchestra Management . . . . . . John Watson
      Cathedral Choir (Master of the Choir Barry Rose)
      Recorded by John Richards at CTS Studios assisted by Paul Hulme
      The song Tahiti produced by Mike Batt
      Advisers to the project . . . . . . Glynn Christian and Professor G. B. Milner

      "My sincere thanks and gratitude to everyone involved in this project for their dedication and interest far beyond the call of duty. A special 'thank you' to Derek Bowman for suggesting the idea and for his help in getting together this terrific cast" David Essex.


    • Musical Numbers:
      1. Overture - Orchestra
      2. Sailing for a New World - Christian, Fryer & Bounty's Crew
      3. Setting Sail / Sky Was Clear - Bounty's Crew / Cabin Boy
      4. Six Weeks Late - Bligh and Christian
      5. Pumpkin - Fryer, Bos'n & Crew
      6. The Lash - Crew Member
      7. Cape Horn - Cabin Boy & Crew
      8. Doldrums - Fryer, Elphinstone
      9. Failed Cape Horn - Bligh, Christian
      10. The Letter - Bligh, Fryer, Elphinstone
      11. He Was Born Nowhere / Three Weeks From Paradise - Bos'n, Bligh, Christian and Crew
      12. Land Ho! - Bligh, Christian & TahitianS
      13. Tahiti - Christian, Miamiti & Tahitians
      14. Observe These Men - Bligh
      15. Slow We Moved - Cabin Boy
      16. Captain's Table - Bligh, Fryer & Elphinstone
      17. Hell - Christian & Mutineers
      18. Mutiny - Bligh, Christian, Loyalists & Mutineers
      19. Return to England / We Prayed For a Ship - Cabin Boy, Heywood, Millward, Bos'n & Fryer
      20. Prisoner at the Bar - Fryer
      21. Bligh's Speech
      22. I'll Go No More A-roving - Christian
      23. Finale - Company