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Charlie McGeown Collection
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Charlie McGeown Collection

  • CMG-18705
  • Collection
  • n.d.
Collection comprises a single cassette recording featuring Willie and Michael Coleman and John Joe Gardiner.

McGeown, Charlie

Charlie McGeown Collection. Cassette 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Coleman, Willie, Sligo, fiddle solo A1–5, 11–14, 16–18, 21, 25?, 32, 35–36;
fiddle in duet A19–20, 22, 23?, 29;
fiddle in trio[?] A24, 26–28, 30, 34;
Coleman, Michael, Sligo / USA, fiddle in duet A6;
Gardiner, John Joe, Sligo / Louth, speech in English A7–9;
flute or fiddle in instrumental group A7–8;
fiddle in duet A10;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Dublin, speech in English A7–9;
Ni Uallachain, Padraigin, speech in English A10;
Unidentified performer, speech in English A10;
Unidentified performer, whistle A15;
Unidentified performer(s), banjo in duet A19–20, 22–23, 29, 31, 33;
banjo in trio[?] 24, 26–28, 30, 34;
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio[?] A24, 26–28, 30, 34;
accordion in duet A31, 33

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [Love at the Endings; composed by Ed Reavy] [The original cassette tape from which these tracks come contains a field recording of Willie Coleman, fiddle, over which many other items have been recorded]
2. Reels: Untitled [Doctor Gilbert], Untitled [The Queen of May]
3. Jig: Untitled [Composed by Sean Ryan]
4. Reel: Untitled [Billy Brocker / Billy Bocker]
5. Reels: Untitled [The Boys of the Lough], Untitled [The Devil in Dublin; a version of The Merry Blacksmith]
6. Reel: Untitled (short; incomplete) [Tarbolton; dubbing of commercial 78rpm disc]
7. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio interview; topic: crossroads dances] Untitled [The Dublin Reel], Untitled, Untitled [The Hunter's Purse] [Tracks A7–8 are dubbings from a radio documentary about John Joe Gardiner]
8. Speech, Jigs: Untitled [Radio interview; topic: making records with Gardiner's Traditional Trio / Gardiner's Sligo Trio], Untitled, Untitled [The Frost is All Over]
9. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio interview; topic: broadcasting on 2RN, the forerunner of Radio Eireann; playing live on radio; Seamus Clandillon; studio on top floor of GPO in Dublin; not many people had radios; auditioning for radio; stage-fright when playing live for radio; a funny incident when playing a tune on radio], Untitled [Rakish Paddy], Untitled [The Heather Breeze]
10. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Mountain Top, The Bunch of Keys, Untitled (short; incomplete) [Radio announcement]
11. Reel: Untitled (clipped at start) [Version of Lady Gordon?]
12. Reel: Untitled
13. Reel: Lord Gordon (incomplete; tape runs out) [Lord Gordon] [END OF BAND ONE]
14. Reels, Jig [?]: Untitled [Poll an Mhadra Uisce / The Otter's Holt], Untitled [Lord Gordon], Untitled (short, incomplete; recorded over by other material)
15. Reel: Untitled [Jack Maguire's Reel; CRE 3, # 103]
16. Reel: Untitled [Faral O'Gara]
17. Reel: Untitled
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Reel: Untitled [The Silver Spear]
20. Reel: Untitled [The Maid behind the Bar; tonic note D]
21. Reel: Untitled [Same tune as at track 12]
22. Reel: Untitled [McFadden's Handsome Daughter]
23. Reels: Untitled [The Mountain Road], Untitled (short; incomplete; clipped at end) [The Cameronian]
24. Reel: Untitled (clipped at end) [The Chicago Reel]
25. Jig: Untitled [The Rambler]
26. Reel: Untitled [Version of Devanney's Goat?]
27. Reel: Untitled [McFadden's Handsome Daughter]
28. Reel: Untitled [McFadden's Handsome Daughter]
29. Reel: Untitled
30. Reel: Untitled [Richard Dwyer's; composed by Richard Dwyer]
31. Jigs: Untitled [The Blarney Pilgrim], Untitled
32. Reels: Untitled [Jackson's Reel], Untitled [The Dublin Reel] [The selection here reproduces one recorded by Michael Coleman]
33. Reel: Untitled [Version of Devanney's Goat?]
34. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's Chickens]
35. Reel: Untitled (short; incomplete; clipped at start) [Lord Gordon]
36. Reel: Untitled (tape runs out) [Lord Gordon] [END OF BAND TWO]

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