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Robin Morton Collection Ireland: Singing in English
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Robin Morton Collection

  • RMO-18789
  • Collection
  • 1960s-1970s
Collection comprises reel-to-reel tape recordings made by Robin Morton chiefly across Ulster in the 1960s and 1970s. The recordings feature traditional music performances (songs, tunes and dances) by a wide variety of musicians and singers.

Morton, Robin

Robin Morton Collection. Reel-to-Reel 76 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Morton, Robin, speech in English throughout;
McDermott, Josie, flute solo A2-3, speech in English throughout, singing in English A4-6, lilting A7;
McConnell, Cathal, speech in English A2-3

Running Order:
1. Speech: talk about blindness caused by timber rash, competitions in the 1960's
2. Reels/Speech: Peg McGrath's, Ganley's Reel (fragmented)
3. Speech/Air: An Cailin Rua (The Red-Haired Girl) (fragmented)
4. Speech/Song: The Shores of My Native Land
5. Song: Ballad of the O'Carolan Country
6. Song/Speech: Untitled [END OF BAND ONE]
7. Speech/Reels: The Collier's Reel, The Bank of Ireland (two takes) [END OF BAND TWO]

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