Songs of the Humpback Whale (album)
1970 studio album by Roger Payne / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Songs of the Humpback Whale is a 1970 album produced by bio-acoustician Roger Payne. It publicly demonstrated for the first time the elaborate whale vocalizations of humpback whales. Selling over 100,000 copies, it became the bestselling environmental album in history, and its sales benefited the Wildlife Conservation Society's Whale Fund, of which Payne was Scientific Director, and which sought to conserve whales through research and public education.[2][3][4] By raising awareness of the intelligence and culture of whales, the album helped spawn a worldwide ”Save The Whales” movement, leading to the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment ten-year global moratorium on commercial whaling (observed by all but a few nations).[5]
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| Released | August 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 1970 | |||
| Genre | Environmental, whale song | |||
| Length | 34:26 | |||
| Label | CRM Records (1970), Capitol Records (1970), Windham Hill Records (1992), BGO Records (Compact Disc, remastered, 2001) | |||
| Producer | Roger Payne and Katy Payne | |||
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