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Series 2: Sound Recordings (continued)
Subseries 7: Scotland (continued)
Battle o Cromdale (great [...]) - J. MacBeath
Lord Lovett - J. Robertson - two takes, first incomplete
Four Marys - J. Robertson
AFC 2008/005: SR189
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-5x. Jeannie Robertson; Jimmy MacBeath (cont); #55. On the reel: TW-S12 /Edwin Burgh.
Handsome cabin boy - J. Robinson - take 1, unfinished
Handsome cabin boy - J. Robinson - take two, good quality
Talk - Burns, Ferguson, J. MacBeath story - off-color story
Burn's toast, Burns, and Tom Moore, MacBeath and the [...] (good); Story - When I went to Aiky Fair - leading into song
Banks of Rothshire - blue
Talk about [...] - nothing much
Story about Mary Queen o'Scots and John Knox and execution - good, blue
Story about the starts O'Maggie Far - good
Intro talk about Battle of Cromdale - intro song
Great [...], Hoches of Cromdale - good - but only two verses
AFC 2008/005: SR190
1 sound tape reel (27 min.) : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-5xx. Jeannie Robertson; Jimmy MacBeath (continued); copy (S. 5x). On the reel: Jean Robert MacBeath.
Handsome cabin boy - Jeannie Robertson
Talk about J. MacBeath, Burns Ferguson
Burns Toast - Burns and Tom Moore
MacBeath and witches - When I went to Airy Fair - song: Banks of Rothshire
Mary Queen of Scots and John Knox - start of Maggie Far
Talk about [...]
Battle Cromdale - talk and song - two verses - al J. MacBeath
AFC 2008/005: SR191
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-6. Robertson, Jeannie; Blin Robins; Isaac Higgins; On the reel: Jean Roberts Aberdeen.
AFC 2008/005: SR192
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-7. Jeannie Robertson; Jimmy MacBeath. On the reel: Jeannie Robertson /Edwin Burg /Jimmy MacBeath.
What a voice - Jeannie Robertson - excellent
A pretty fair maid her garden walkin' - Jeannie Robertson - good - but I break toward end
My bonny ploughboy- Jimmy MacBeath - good
Down by the Modlin Green - Jimmy MacBeath - good
My auld Scottish lass - Jimmy MacBeath - good
Bonny well lassie that never said no - J. Robertson - good
Diddling - Isaac Higgins - good
Sat and [Sunday?] [light pencil] - J. MacBeath - good
AFC 2008/005: SR193
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-8. Jimmy MacBeath; Green Caledonia - Like Hally's; talk about Burns, books, [...]; weaving, dyes; rest tape empty. On the reel: Jim MacBeath.
AFC 2008/005: SR194
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-9. Jeannie Robertson; compilation; Jeannie Robertson Aberdeen.
Four Marys - J. Robertson - from S-21
Jeannie talk about the song and recites verses like poetry - taken out for lecture 5/12/59, 1959 or before
MacCrimmon's lament - J. Robertson - from S-21 - slow, voice imitate. Pebroch pipes
What a voice I hear - J. Robertson - from S-13 - slow, "careless love" verses
A pretty fair maid her garden walking - from S-13- good, but one pause toward end
Bonny well lassie that never said "no" - J. Robertson - from S-13
My parents gave me good learnin (Butcher boy) - J. Robertson - from S-11- "Pretty Polly" story
Lord Lovett - J. Robertson - S-11 - lovely version
AFC 2008/005: SR195
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-10. Jeannie Robertson; Dinty Doonhye false start.
Up a wide and lonely glen (slight hesitation [...] verse, "her coast was white, etc."
Miss Brown of Dublin City - (Pretty Polly story)
For the moon shined on me last night - love best (stops after verse: " an old man [...]" - then adds last verse)
Brennen on the [...] (stops, adds last verse)
Jimmy MacBeath
Binnarie - scratches, fragments
MacPherson's rant - repeats verse "There some has come to see" adds "He took the fiddle" - at end; extremely long version, nice talk about song at end
AFC 2008/005: SR196
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-11. Jeannie Robertson. On the reel: Aberdeen.
Four Marys - several trials, false starts
Four Marys - complete song begins pencils marks
MacCrommon's lament - excellent
Test copy: Blue robin - Tail toddle - good copy; rest tape empty
AFC 2008/005: SR197
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-12. Jeannie Robertson, Isaac Higgins, Blin Robin. On the reel: Aberdeen.
Tail toddle
Up a wide and lonely glen - Blin Robin
The braes of [...] lane
Young Jenny [...]
[...]
"diddling" - pipe tunes - Isaac Higgins
Moss O'[...] - Blin Robin
Betsy Bell- Jeannie's daughter Eliza - false start
Dee are old maid [...]
"The wind" - Charlotte Robertson - one false start
Fish rhyme - very short - Charlotte Robertson
I have a sweetheart in America (begins like "what a [...]")
There was three kings - Charlotte Robertson - not completed
Ball O'Kerrienier - Blin Robin - new verses (clean!)
Begin again - [...]
My granny she wears bloomers - very blue
AFC 2008/005: SR198
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-12x. Jeannie Robertson; Isaac Higgins; Blin Robin; see S12 card; copy: Blin Robin, girls, Isaac Higgins.
Tail toddle - Blin Robin
Happen Rowe - Blin Robin
Braes o'Stathhlan- Blin Robin
Jenny Foyers - Blin Robin
[...] mass time - [...] to the fair - Snappy tune of (Dirty doon bye)
Diddling - Isaac Higgins
The mass o'Barrodale (?) - Blin Robin
Betsy Bell - Jeannie's daughter
[...] old maid - Jeannie's daughter - false start - verse of "come a [...]"
The Ball O'Kerrimier - Blin Robin - "cleaned up version"
My granny she wears bloomers - very blue - but lively tune
Tarvirs (?) rant - [...] - slow narrative
Chanter times - Isaac Higgins
AFC 2008/005: SR199
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-12xx. Robertson, Jeannie; Isaac Higgins; Blin Robin; see S12 card; Blin robin: 1. My Father was hanged for sheep stealing; 2. the tarvis rant; all of carol S12.
AFC 2008/005: SR200, September 18, 1953
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-13. Jimmy Stewart - born 1898 Tallifourain; Tinker - has traveled all over Scotland. Married, several children, a little schooling. Now ill with heart trouble; Address: 69 Queen St. Forfar. Tape was not entirely clear - had to wipe.
[...] Jimmy
Lord Rummel - rough after "What'll you leave to your sweetheart"
Barbara Allen - false start - good
[...]amont the Canden Knaves - good
Turra Market - uses "Forrester" tune - good
Starts "Beggerman" - doesn't finish it
Starts "Wee lassie that never said no," then sings - good
Touched the fair maid on the toe - blue
Dowie dens - different tune of "[...] laddie" (different ending - good)
SN begins "Jenny Foyers"
Sleeping or walkin', Maggie dear - fragment - "Lan o Rock Royal"
"The Obergate"
"Fivey-o" - one false start - not complete - fair
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