Composer
Jim Payne
Canadian singer
b. 1955
8 works in the index
- Born
- 1955
- Birthplace
- Notre Dame Bay
- Citizenship / historical state
- Canada
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
Jim Payne (born c.1955) is a Newfoundland folk singer, best known for performing and recording many of the traditional sea shanties of Newfoundland culture. He also composed the song "Wave Over Wave" with Janis Spence and founded the record label SingSong Inc.
Payne was born in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. He plays guitar, diatonic accordion, mandolin, tin whistle, and violin, and is a singer, storyteller, actor, writer, stepdancer, and teacher of traditional Newfoundland set and square dances.
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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- singer; actor; songwriter; record producer; composer; teacher
- Education
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Instruments played
- guitar; accordion; mandolin; tin whistle; voice; percussion instrument; drum kit
- Genres
- traditional folk music; blues
- Birth name
- James Payne
- VIAF ID
- 102760601
- ISNI
- 0000000073174766
- Library of Congress ID
- no99033469
- MusicBrainz ID
- cf3dc83b-1991-4c74-b461-da3bd96046f9
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- percussion
- Genres represented
- Dance, Funk
- Works with composition dates
- 0 of 8
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Works
Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.
| Work | Year composed | Catalogue / opus | Key in title | Listed instruments | Genre | Editions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Get On The Good Foot | — | — | — | percussion | Dance | 2 |
| Funky Broadway (:24) | — | — | — | percussion | — | — |
| Funky Stuff (:24) | — | — | — | percussion | — | — |
| I Got Money (:21) | — | — | — | percussion | Dance | 0 |
| Cold Sweat (:21) | — | — | — | percussion | Dance | 0 |
| Fire | — | — | — | percussion | Dance | — |
| Boogaloo Down Broadway | — | — | — | percussion | Dance | — |
| 100 Famous Funk Beats | — | — | — | — | Funk | 1 |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 102760601. Portrait: Photography by Elonka Dunin, during circumnavigation of Newfoundland, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.