Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 57 [sound recording] / [various performers]
- HSH-18739/1/259042
- Item
- 21 July 1969 ; 18 July 1969 ; 23 July 1969
Part of Hugh Shields Collection
Recorded in the house of James Osborne (age about 50), native of Ballymoney district, farmer at Bellaney, Dunboe, Coleraine, Co. Derry, 21 July 1969 [track 1]
Recorded from Charles (Charlie) Somers (aged about 75), in his house at The Bog, Bellarena, Co. Derry, 18 July 1969 [tracks 2–4]
Recorded from Eddie Butcher in his house in Aughil, Magilligan, Co. Derry, 23 July 1969 [track 5]
Performers:
Osborne, Mary, singing in English Track 1;
Somers, Charlie, singing in English Tracks 2-4;
Butcher, Edward, singing in English Track 5
Running Order:
1. The road by the river that flows through Ratheane (‘I have walked along Broadway, I have been down the Strand...’), song [from gramophone record] / Mrs Mary Osborne, singing in English [session continued from 6920]
2. It’s of a young gentleman [=The seducer outwitted] (‘It’s of a young gentleman in this country did dwell...’), song [false start] / Charlie Somers, singing in English
3. It’s of a young gentleman [=The seducer outwitted] (‘It’s of a young gentleman in this country did dwell...’), song [second false start] / Charlie Somers, singing in English
4. [It’s of a] young gentleman [=The seducer outwitted] (‘It’s of a young gentleman in this country did dwell...’), song [complete version, clipped at start] / Charlie Somers, singing in English [session continued on 6922]
5. The widow woman’s daughter (‘Oh there were a widow woman in the West moorlands...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English [end of session] [END OF BAND ONE]