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Clingan, James 'Jimmy', Donegal, singing in English A1, 3, 5;
speech in English throughout A1–5;
fiddle solo A4–5;
O'Hara, Aidan, Dublin, speech in English throughout;
Clancy, John, Cavan, speech in English A6;
Clancy, Angela, Cavan, speech in English A6
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1. The shores of Americay, song / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English
2. Speech [Talk about learning songs off records, people selling ballad sheets; Jimmy talks about his love of Gilbert and Sullivan songs which he learned from a recording of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; he saw ballad song sellers at markets and fairs in Carndonagh the last thirty years ago; tinkers, men and women sold the songs which they had printed up, songs by Thomas Moore and the like. Sheets would be three pence or four pence each; how they know what air to sing the song to; He showed me a song called 'The Bonnie Wee Lass o' the Glen', written out for him 30 or 40 years earlier by a man from Balleighan, Malin, his name, John White Paddy, a Doherty or a McLaughlin man. Jimmy said the man had a lovely voice and he liked the song; talks about the 'timbre' in a good singer's voice. "I haven't that," he said.' (description provided by AOH)] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English]
3. Speech [Information from A O'H: 'Starts off talking about an RIC man who wrote a song about a woman he liked in Clonmany and he quotes lines from it. Sings a verse and says, "That's a good song and nobody in Inishowen hardly knows it either." He got it from hearing it sung by others. On line the song is called Dark Iniseoghain: http://celtic-lyrics.com/lyrics/566.html and http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/deante/dark_iniseoghain-lyrics-1155631.html , also http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=13326, etc.; I asked him for The Star of Inishowen but he didn't know the air of it. He said he worked as a carpenter all his life and was in the Irish Army during the Emergency. He was 71 when I recorded this] ; Dark Iniseoghain, song / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English
4. An Chúilfhionn [An Chuileann / The Coolin], air ; Speech [Information from A O'H: 'I asked him about a song called 'Came whistling o'er the hill' (same air as 'Sullivan's John'). Jimmy said it was well known locally'] / Jimmy Clingan, fiddle
5. Came whistling o'er the hill, air ; Speech [Information from A O'H: 'Talks about a song he heard only once sung by a man from Glengad. It took his fancy because it was so pleasing and he was sorry he didn't get it off him. Sings a few lines of it']; [untitled], song / Jimmy Clingan, fiddle, speech in English
6. Speech: [Information from A O'H: 'This recording was made after interview with Jimmy Clingan in 19AOH begins by reciting a few lines from verses written about the Derragarra Inn, Butler's Bridge. With him are the owners, John and Angela Clancy to whom he talks about their establishment: a recorded interview for Aidan's programme, 'Fáilte Isteach' on RTÉ Radio 1] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; John Clancy, speech in English ; Angela Clancy, speech in English
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Donated by Aidan O'Hara
Imported from Reeldubs July 2013
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Spoken information on tape ; See related ephemera ; Carton: 'James Clingan' [spine]
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