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Series 2: Sound Recordings (continued)
Subseries 2: England (continued)
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)
AFC 2008/005: SR034, November 24, 1952
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # ER-2. Mrs. Cronin, Macroom; ER 2-2; original; C5. On reel: Mrs Cron /Macroom.
The factory girl
Gather your ducks and mind them
Pussy cats' party (no good)
Pussy got the measles - Mamie O'Connor
Sun has gone down in the west, love (no good)
Kildare Fair (mod.)
Ten weary years since I left Ireland's shore (no good)
As I went walking one morn down by the greenwood side (Irish and English)
Lullabye (in Irish)
Conversation following about song
Lullabye (in Irish)
Conversation following about song
Charming sweet girl that I love
AFC 2008/005: SR035, November 24, 1952
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # ER-2 dupe. Mrs. Cronin; ER 2x; MCC3, C6, copy. According Jean's notes, the following songs were "taken out for lecture tape 5/12/59": Gather your ducks; Pussy's got the measles; and As I went walking one morn down by greenwood side (Irish and Eng).
The factory girl
Gather your ducks and mind them
Pussy cat's party - no good
Pussy's got the measles - Mamie O'Connor
Sun has gone down in the west, love (no good)
Kildare Fair (mod.)
Ten weary years since I left Ireland's shore (no good)
As I went walking one morn down by the greenwood side (Irish and English)
Second lullabye - more conversation
The charming sweet girl that I love
I am a maid that sleeps in love
Lanaghan's ball
AFC 2008/005: SR036
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # ER-3x. MCC; C4. On reel: Mrs. Cronin /copy / Macroom.
Barbara Allen
Cuc a handy
Little pack o'tailors
Darby ram
Lord Gregory
Molly Bam
The Kerry cow - Irish and English
Same tune: girl compares suitors
Farmer's wife I'll be - verse
Some tune: In Dublin town I was brought up
Maid in father's garden
Robbing on the highway
She lived beside the Anner - Mamie O'Connor
AFC 2008/005: SR037, November 24, 1952
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # ER-4. Mrs. Cronin- Macroom; original; C1.
The girl that I love - last verse
Any letter here today
Molly Bam
I am a maid that sleeps in love
Just like the ivy
Lanaghan's ball
Nice little Jenny of Ballinasloe
Bantry Bay - Mamie O'Connell
Barbara Allen - Michael Cronin
Glen Swilly - Johnny Hoare
Lord Randal - M. Cronin
AFC 2008/005: SR038
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # ER-5. Mrs. Cronin; Tail Out R; ER 5-5 (Comp. Copy); Michael Cronin; Johnny Hoare (fiddle). A note indicates the recording of Lord Randal was "taken out for lecture tape," May 12, 1959.
Barbara Allin [sic] - Michael Cronin
Glen Swilly - Johnny Hoare
Lord Randal - Michael Cronin
Ramblin' Irishman - Johnny Hoare
Where the bright lovely waters flow - Michael Cronin
On board the Kangaroo - Michael Cronin
Bonnie bunch of roses - Michael Cronin
The pipe and the harp, and Flanagan's ball - Johnny Hoare, fiddle
The Londonderry hornpipe - Johnny Hoare, fiddle
A set dance
AFC 2008/005: SR039
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # ER-6. Seamus Ennis; Edited js; ER-6 6; copied js.
Dark-eyed sailor - Thomas Ennis - false start
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