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Series 2: Sound Recordings (continued)
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)
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
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