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Series 2: Sound Recordings (continued)
Subseries 6: Ritchie family (continued)
AFC 2008/005: SR173, Summer 1951
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # RF-43. Ritchie Homeplace. Program at Homeplace, Kentucky. - Jean Ritchie, Edna Ritchie, Hally Wood.
Pretty Saro (last verse)
Old man in the wood
The Willow Garden - Hally
Young man wouldn't raise corn
Greta Laughlin - sings at piano
One morning in May - duet Edna and Jean - guitar - good - some audience coughs, etc.
Dubliners music - Jean plays Joe Clark
Old Betty Larkin - played on dulcimer and sings - not so good
I wonder when I shall be married - Ed and Jean - a bit dramatic, but good
Tempted and tried - Jean, Ed and Hally
Edna giving tunes - No sir - version of No John; Sweet Willie - well sung
Bachelor's hall - fragment
Jesse James
AFC 2008/005: SR174
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # RF-44. Viper - Ritchie Talk. On the reel: Viper talk.
AFC 2008/005: SR175
1 sound tape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # RF-45. Viper Talk - Ritchie. On the reel: Boney / conversation Viper.
AFC 2008/005: SR176, July 1973
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # RF-46. Ritchie family Washington July 73. Ritchie family Washington (Smithsonian Folklife Festival). On the reel: Streams of time.
AFC 2008/005: SR177, July 1973
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # RF-47. Ritchie family in Washington. Ritchies in Washington. On the reel: Family in Washington.
Wonder when I shall marry
What will I do with the baby-o
Ground hog
Brown eyes
Gave my love a cherry
... tower [?]
Shoemakers son
[...]
Father grumble
AFC 2008/005: SR178
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # RF-48. Viper, Ritchie, Homeplace sing. On the reel: home place singing.
AFC 2008/005: SR179, 1957
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # RF-49. Leftover Ritchie family. On the reel: JRP / ?/11/57 /leftover.
AFC 2008/005: SR180, 1951
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # RF-50. Family reunion 1951. On the reel: family sings hymn.
Sometimes (hymn)
Twilight a-stealing- 3⁄4 way through
Pretty Saro - three or four unison with dulcimers
Sometimes - family - on end
end of backtrack - Carl Sandburg
Subseries 7: Scotland
AFC 2008/005: SR181
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-1. Jimmy MacBeath
Corachree - good tune in different words
Trooper lad - very good
Drumdelgie - very good - rem. of Pretty maid in the garden
Laddie Dark and Rolling Eye - very good
O-o-I'm left alone (Jackaro) - very good
The cuckoo's nest - very good
Bonny Odney - beautiful song - well sung
Fivey-o - well sung - good version
When I was a ploughboy - well sung - good version; describes [...] barn dance, where songs [...] born
Far Coolin's a-callin' me away
AFC 2008/005: SR182
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-2. Jimmy MacBeath and Elizabeth White. On the reel: 5-2 tails out.
Many's the time around you cradle - fragment with conversation after - E. White
Old Betty Campbell (a toast?) - Elizabeth White
Trooper lad - Jimmy MacBeath
Laddie with the dark and loving eye" - J. MacBeath
O, o, I'm left alone" - J. MacBeath
Fivey-o - J. MacBeath
AFC 2008/005: SR183
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-2x. Jeannie Robertson and Jimmy MacBeath.
Aiky brae - Jimmy MacBeath - well sung
Drumdelgie - Jimmy MacBeath- well sung
Boggy's bonny belle - Jimmy MacBeath - well sung
MacPherson's rant- Jimmy MacBeath - well sung, good sequence
My parents gave me good learnin'/Butcher Boy - Jeannie Robertson- well sung
Lord Lovett - Jeannie Robertson - lovely version; leave off false start
AFC 2008/005: SR184, 1953
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-3. Jimmy MacBeath. On the reel: S0 /53 /Jim MacBeath.
Bonny bunch of roses - whistled
Bonny bunch of roses - sung (different key)
Bonny bunch of roses - whistled [...]
Bonny bunch of roses - more [...]
My bonny Irish boy - very nice and good
Talk of dance - [???]
AFC 2008/005: SR185
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-3x. Jimmy MacBeath (continued). On the reel: Jimmy MacBeath /copy.
Bonny Bunch of Roses O-whistled and sung in different key, whistled again - more words
My Bonny Irish Boy- very nice and good
Talk of dances [...] hands, etc, singing presentations, fairs, jobs, etc, all the names of fairs he has sung at and instruments
The moss o Barredale - nice tune
On the banks of [...] - good tune - well sung
Right over the tops of the [...] - pretty good, pause before last verse
Beggar man - good [...]
AFC 2008/005: SR186
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-4. Jimmy MacBeath. On the reel: S4 /MacBeath.
Lord runneth - Jimmy Stewart
As I went down to Obergate - J. Robertson
What a voice - J. Robertson
Bonny plowman boy - J. MacBeath
O'Tulloch Georham (reel) - J. Robertson
Eel Me Dhu Ve - A. Arnot (incomplete with gunshot and fade out)
AFC 2008/005: SR187
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-4x. Jimmy MacBeath (cont).
Dowie Dens - false start - pretty good
A [...] song - can't get words!
On August 12 - Willie Matheson - [...]'s song - SB? (talk about song follows)
Dowie dens
Riney (Lilten Addie)
The Hearst of Kelly (?)
Come all ye [...] and hawkers - SB? - (talk about going Canada)
AFC 2008/005: SR188
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # S-5. Jeannie Robertson; Jimmy MacBeath.
What would you do - Mrs. Cronin (ER-1)
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