Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 60 [sound recording] / [various performers]
- HSH-18739/1/259045
- Item
- 22-Jul-69
Part of Hugh Shields Collection
Recorded in Eddie Butcher's house, Magilligan, Co. Derry [in July 1969] [tracks 1-6]
Performers:
Somers, Hugh, singing in English Track 1;
Somers, Charles, singing in English Track 2;
Butcher, Eddie, singing in English Track 3;
McCurry, Bob, speech in English Tracks 4-6
Running Order:
1. The bonny moorhen (‘[My bonny moorhen] she is feathered anew [?]...’), song [fragment] / Hugh Somers, singing in English [end of session]
2. The jug of punch (‘It being on the twenty-fourth of June...’), song / Charlie Somers, singing in English
3. The Myroe ploughing match (‘Oh you brave boys of Newtown and likewise Myroe...’), song [words perhaps by Jimmy McCurry, blind fiddler and great-uncle of Bob McCurry] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
4. ‘No daughter, whisky’, story / Bob McCurry (aged 69), speech in English
5. The minister, the cat and John, story / Bob McCurry, speech in English
6. John and the priest’s lily pond, story / Bob McCurry, speech in English [end of session][END OF BAND ONE]