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Series 2: Sound Recordings (continued)
Subseries 2: England (continued)
Banks of sweet Dundee - Ewan McColl
AFC 2008/005: SR025, June 11, 1958
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-17. Bert Lloyd; Ewan McColl; Isla Cameron. Copies of "Bowline"; "Paddy Doyle" and "Cruel ships Captain" spliced onto beginning; copied "The Irish girl." On reel: #3E.
The Irish girl - Isla Cameron - good, voice a bit grainy - 1 minute 50 seconds
Haul on the bowline - Ewan McColl and Bert Lloyd; Paddy Doyle
Ranso - Bert Lloyd and Ewan MacColl
Long pause
Bonny boy is growin' - Ewan McColl
AFC 2008/005: SR026, January 31, 1954
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-18. Composite tape made up of other tapes with Isla Cameron on them - A.S.; composite copy; Isla Cameron. On reel: Copy #1 Isla Cameron.
Bushes and briars
Come all you fair and tender girls
Alternate documentation gives the title as "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies."
Marghellia du Keelyn
Queens Marys (Four Marys)
As he walked down by the river (sexy)
I cannot get to my love
My bonny lad
Sandgate nursery song
Can ye sew cushions
Laagon [sic] stream
Dance to your daddy
Lord Randall
Western wynd
Little wee croodin doo
Johnny Todd
The Weavers 'gin ye go
The Irish girl (room for two songs more)
AFC 2008/005: SR027
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-19. Isla Cameron; edited; copied JS.
Little wee croodin doo - fair with guitar
Little wee croodin doo (repeat) - bad
Little wee croodin doo - false start- then repeat - better
Johnny Todd - false start - sung terribly fast
Johnny Todd - bad - false start
Johnny Todd (repeat) - false start - (hopeless)
Johnny Todd - with whistling and guitar - starts on wrong note - sings over and over
Johnny Todd - with whistling and guitar - false start - a repeat
Johnny Todd - with whistling and guitar
AFC 2008/005: SR028
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-20. Cameron, Isla; Edited (L.G.); copied LG. On reel: Isla Cameron reel #2.
Come all ye fair and tender girls (false start) - retake
Laagon [sic] stream - good
Kitty alone (version Frig and mouse) - false start
Kitty alone - lower key - (scratchy voice) - terrible
Kitty alone - repeat - also mediocre- bad
Dance to your daddy-o - false start
Dance to your daddy-o - false start
Lord Randall - stop clears throat- otherwise o.k
Western wynd - good
AFC 2008/005: SR029
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-21. Copied (L.G.); Isla Cameron. On reel: 1⁄2 other half talk about [...].
Bushes and briars - Isla Cameron - good
Bushes and briars - Isla Cameron - tries higher key - not as good
Come all you fair and tender girls - two verses - good
Morghellia du Keerdu - fine tune, good
Outlandish knight- false start - no retake
Queens Marys - good
Black waterside - good, but too low
Black waterside - higher key, good off tune in one place
As he walked down to the river - false start
As he walked down to the river - good
My Bonny Lad - voice wavering
I cannot get to my love - good - lovely song about Tyne
The unquiet grave - spoken
Isla, Jean, and George talking till the end of the tape
AFC 2008/005: SR030
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-22; Cameron, Isla; copied (L.G.). On reel: Isla Cameron /first roll.
My bonny lad - false start - second good
Bushes and briars - fair
Sandgate nursing song - good, but could be better
Can ye sew cushions - good (after false start)
Black waterside - two times, not clear
Four Marys - nice version
AFC 2008/005: SR528, January 29, 1953
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-23. Open reel: Seamus pipes /Louise Bennett's Party, in London /?? calypso.
Seamus Ennis plays several tunes on Irish elbow pipes
Louise Bennett or Isla Cameron sings a song far in background
Ennis plays several more tunes on the elbow pipes
Your love will need no wedding ring - Sy Grant
Martha - Sy Grant
Dry weather houses - Louise Bennett and Sy Grant
What a Saturday night - Louise Bennett, Sy Grant, and chorus
Rookumbay - Louise Bennett, Sy Grant, and chorus at party
Louise Bennett tells of, and sings a calypso song - with drum accompaniment
House of lullaby - Louise Bennett
Sama Dema Halla... - Louise Bennett and Sy Grant
A calypso song, sung by Louise Bennett and Sy Grant
The ram goat - Sy Grant - a blue song with purple lyrics about a black deed
The walk journey - Sy Grant, with party choristers
AFC 2008/005: SR031
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-24. On reel: Leslie Haworth.
Subseries 3: Ireland
AFC 2008/005: SR032
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # ER-1. Mrs. Cronin; original; C7. On reel: Macroom Nov 26.
Down the green fields - Cronin children
What would you do - Cronin children
I have a bonnet - Cronin children
Did you see my man - Cronin children
Fairy king, etc. - Kathleen Sheehen
Alternate documentation indicates that Kathleen Sheehan is the performer, and the recording (or version) is n.g. (no good).
Conversation about straw boys
Conversation about St. Stephen's Day
The bells of heaven (song)
AFC 2008/005: SR033
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # ER-1 dupe. ER-1x; Mrs. Cronin; MCC2; copy; C3. On reel: MCC2 Mrs. Cronin copy.
Down the green fields
What would you do
I have a bonnet
Did you see my man
Fairy king, etc. - Kathleen Sheehen
Alternate documentation indicates that Kathleen Sheehan is the performer, and the recording (or version) is n.g. (no good).
Conversation about straw boys
Conversation about St. Stephen's day
The bells of heaven (song)
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