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Larry Masterson Collection. Reel-to-Reel 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Digitised and catalogued by Jackie Small, October 2012Imported from Reeldubs July 2013[Tracks 25–93 contain edited off-air dubbings from editions of the BBC radio programme \'Folk on Friday\', presented by Jim Lloyd]

Running Order:
1. Song: Untitled [Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go / Will You Go, Lassie, Go / Wild Mountain Thyme]
2. Song: Untitled (incomplete) [The Auld Triangle / The Old Triangle; composed by Dominick Behan]
3. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [The Broken Pledge], Untitled [Rakish Paddy], Untitled
4. Speech, Reels: Untitled, Untitled [Maudabawn Chapel; composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [The Longford Collector]
5. Reel: Untitled [The Galway Reel; composed by Larry Redican]
6. Reels: Untitled [The Pride of Rathmore], Untitled [The Girls of Farranfore; The Game of Love]
7. Reel: Untitled [Derrycrag Reel; composed by Father Kelly]
8. Song: Untitled (incomplete)
9. Reel: Untitled [The Green Mountain]
10. Reel: Untitled [Jenny Tie Your Bonnet]
11. Song: Untitled [The Rocks of Bawn]
12. Song: Untitled [Green Broom]
13. Reel: Untitled [The Old Bush]
14. Air: Untitled
15. Airs: Untitled [The Star of the County Down; approximately in march time, with accented rhythm], Untitled [The Star of the County Down; slowly, as a slow air], Untitled
16. Reels: Untitled [Sporting Nell], Untitled [The Boyne Hunt], Untitled [The Humours of Tulla], Untitled [The Teetotaller], Untitled [O'Rourke's]
17. Speech, Song: Untitled [Introduction to the song that follows], The Old Triangle [The Auld Triangle; composed by Dominick Behan]
18. Song: Untitled [The Old Man's Tale] [END OF BAND ONE]
19. Reel: Untitled [Colonel Fraser]
20. Jig: Untitled [The Gold Ring]
21. Reels: Untitled [Bunker Hill], Untitled [The Old Bush], Untitled [The Galtee]
22. Reel: Untitled [Ships Are Sailing]
23. Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled
24. Song, Reel: Untitled, Untitled (incomplete)
25. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
26. Reels: Untitled [The Bunch of Keys], Untitled [The Scholar]
27. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
28. Song, Speech: Untitled [The Jug of Punch], Untitled [Radio announcement]
29. Song: The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie
30. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
31. Song: Blood Red Roses
32. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
33. Song, Reel, Speech: The Burning of Auchindoun, Untitled [Joe Cooley's Reel], Untitled [Radio announcement]
34. Song: Untitled [Composed by Ed Pickford, a member of the group who perform it here]
35. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
36. Song: Farewell Johnny Miner [Composed by Ed Pickford, a member of the group who perform it here]
37. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
38. Song: Untitled
39. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
40. Song: Song of the Fishgutters
41. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Part of the track 'Flatback Caper' from the LP 'Full House' by Fairport Convention], Untitled [Radio announcement]
42. Song, Speech: Sir Patrick Spens, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview; the background to the tunes to be performed next]
43. Reels: Jack Broke the Prison Door, Donald Blue, Wha'll Dance with Wattie
44. Speech, Song: Untitled [Radio announcement], Lord of the Dance
45. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Simple Gifts, Untitled [Radio announcement]
46. Song: Untitled
47. Song, Speech: Untitled [Hey John Barleycorn], Untitled [Radio announcement]
48. Song, Speech: Untitled [Adam Buckham], Untitled [Radio announcement]
49. Reels, Speech, Reel: Untitled [Da Tushkar], Untitled [Susan Cooper], Untitled [Millbrae], Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Toss the Feathers; signature tune of radio programme; clipped at end] [END OF BAND FOUR]
50. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning; signature tune of the BBC radio programme 'Folk on Friday', marking the beginning of an edition], Untitled [Radio announcement]
51. Song, Speech: Untitled [Twa Corbies], Untitled [Radio announcement]
52. Song: When Spring Comes On
53. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Song, Speech: Belfast City [Song medley, including 'I'll Tell My Ma'], Untitled [Radio announcement]
55. Instrumental Piece, Speech: Picture Rag, Untitled [Radio announcement]
56. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
57. Song: Young Roger Esquire
58. Speech, Song: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Lancashire Lads]
59. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
60. Song: Noble Fox Hunting
61. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (incomplete), Untitled [Radio announcement]
62. Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
63. Song, Speech: Untitled [Let Your Linen Hang Low], Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
64. Song, Speech: The Shooting of His Dear, Untitled [Radio announcement]
65. Song, Speech: The January Man, Untitled [Radio announcement]
66. Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
67. Song, Speech: Through the Recent Years, Untitled [Radio announcement]
68. Song: Untitled [Whip Jamboree]
69. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
70. Song, Speech: Untitled [Turpin Hero], Untitled [Radio announcement]
71. Song, Speech: Rukumbine, Untitled [Radio announcement]
72. Song: Asikatali
73. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
74. Song, Speech: The Leaving of Liverpool, Untitled [Radio announcement]
75. Song, Speech: Untitled [Whip Jamboree], Untitled [Radio announcement]
76. Song: Oak, Ash and Thorn
77. Speech: Untitled [Final radio announcement of this edition of 'Folk on Friday'] [END OF BAND THREE]
78. Song: Untitled [The Barley Mow]
79. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
80. Song, Speech: Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair, Untitled [Radio announcement]
81. Reel, Speech: The Oak Tree, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
82. Song, Speech: Hares on the Mountains, Untitled [Radio announcement]
83. Jigs, Speech, Speech: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [As voiceover], Untitled [Radio announcement]
84. Instrumental Piece: Untitled [The Keel Row] (followed by a brief orchestral clip)
85. Speech, Speech, Song, Song, Instrumental Piece, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcements throughout track D8, in review of LP 'The Sounds and Songs of Britain'], Untitled [Town crier; sample clip from LP being reviewed], Untitled [In Scots Gaelic; sample from LP], Untitled, Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
86. Song, Speech, Song: The Cuckoo, Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Spencer the Rover]
87. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
88. Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
89. Song, Speech: Box on Her Head, Untitled [Radio announcement]
90. Song, Speech: The Sailor's Life, Untitled [Radio announcement]
91. Song, Speech: New in Town, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
92. Song, Speech: Alice Brand, Untitled [Radio announcement]
93. Song, Speech: The Oyster Girl, Untitled [Final radio announcement of this edition of 'Folk on Friday'] [END OF BAND TWO]

Larry Masterson Collection. Reel-to-Reel 2 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Digitised and catalogued by Jackie Small, November 2012Imported from Reeldubs July 2013[Tracks 1–53 contain off-air dubbings from editions of the BBC radio programme \'Folk on Friday\', presented by Jim Lloyd][Tracks 1–4 are badly affected by sound dropouts on the original reel-to-reel tape]

Running Order:
1. Jig, Speech, Song: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning; signature tune of the BBC radio programme 'Folk on Friday', marking the beginning of an edition], Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Twa Corbies]
2. Speech, Song, Speech, Instrumental Piece (?): Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (inaudible)
3. Instrumental Piece (?): Untitled (mostly inaudible)
4. Speech, Song: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled
5. Speech, Carolan Piece: Untitled [Radio announcement, partly as voice-over], Untitled [Carolan's Concerto; as background to radio announcement]
6. Song, Speech: Ballad of Exploration [We're Only Over Here for Exploration], Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
7. Song: Arthur McBride
8. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
9. Song: The Lowlands of Holland
10. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
11. Song, Speech: I'm Looking for a Job, Untitled [Radio announcement]
12. Song, Speech: Fitba' Referee [Football Referee], Untitled [Radio announcement]
13. Song: Paddy Maloney Forgot That He Was Dead
14. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
15. Air, Slip Jig: The Fairy Child, The Wayward Traveller
16. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
17. Polka, Speech: Untitled [The Grand Old Dame], Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
18. Song: Dame Durden
19. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
20. Speech: Untitled [Radio comedy sketch]
21. Song, Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcements], Untitled [The Fermoy Lasses], Untitled [Radio announcement]
22. Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcements, the first as voice-over]
23. Song, Speech: Peggy and the Soldier, Untitled [Radio announcement]
24. Song, Speech: The Press Printer [Composed by Brian Badley(?), the performer here], Untitled [Radio announcement]
25. Song, Speech: Wild Blowing Sands, Untitled [Radio announcement]
26. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Toss the Feathers; signature tune of radio programme], Untitled [Final radio announcement of this edition of 'Folk on Friday'; as voice-over]
27. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcements] [END OF BAND ONE]
28. Jig, Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning; signature tune of the BBC radio programme 'Folk on Friday', marking the beginning of another edition], Untitled [Radio announcement], Black and White, Untitled [Radio announcement]
29. Slip Jig, Speech: Drops of Brandy, Untitled [Radio announcement; the instrument played by Finbar Furey (i.e., the uilleann pipes) is named as 'the Irish pipes']
30. Song, Speech: The Broadside Man, Untitled [Radio announcement]
31. Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
32. Song, Speech: Jennifer Gentle, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
33. Song: The Death of the Earl of Essex / Welladay
34. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
35. Song, Speech: Jack Orion, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
36. Song: Lord Franklin
37. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
38. Reel, Speech: Crowley's Reel [Dowd's Number Nine / Dowd's No. 9], Untitled [Radio announcement]
39. Song: Untitled
40. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
41. Song: Untitled
42. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
43. Song: King Cotton
44. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Night Visiting Song, Untitled [Radio announcement]
45. Song, Speech, Song, Speech: Ten Thousand Miles Away, Untitled [Radio announcement], The Arethusa, Untitled [Radio announcement]
46. Song: The Humber Bridge
47. Speech, Speech, Song: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled, Untitled
48. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
49. Song, Speech, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Radio announcement]
50. Song: Untitled [The Lord of the Dance]
51. Speech, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Radio announcement]
52. Air, Jig, Speech: Roy's Hands, The Lark in the Morning [With sound dropout on the original reel-to-reel tape], Untitled [Radio announcement]
53. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Toss the Feathers; signature tune of radio programme], Untitled [Final radio announcement of this edition of 'Folk on Friday'; as voice-over]
54. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcements] [END OF BAND FOUR]
55. Song, Speech: Jock o' Hazeldean, Untitled
56. Reels: Untitled [The Sailor on the Rock], Untitled [The Longford Collector]
57. Reel: Untitled [Dowd's Number Nine / Dowd's No. 9]
58. Reels: Untitled [Colonel Fraser], Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [The High Reel]
59. Carolan Piece: Untitled [Carolan's Concerto]
60. Reel: Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
61. Reels: Untitled [The Moving Cloud], Untitled [Sean sa Cheo]
62. Reels: Untitled [Dowd's Favourite / O'Dowd's Favourite]
63. Reels: Untitled [Toss the Feathers], Untitled [The College Grove]
64. Slip Jig, Reel: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare], Untitled [The slip jig just played, here played in reel time]
65. Reel: Untitled [Another playing of the reel just played in track A10]
66. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Kelly's Reel; composed by Paddy Kelly], Untitled [Sean McGuire; composed by Bert Murray]
67. Reels: Untitled [The Plough and the Stars], Untitled [The Morning Dew; incomplete]
68. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Quarrelsome Piper]
69. Jigs: Untitled [The Walls of Liscarroll], Untitled [Bill Harte's Jig]
70. Jig: Untitled
71. Reel: Untitled [The Land of Sunshine; composed by Martin Mulhaire]
72. Reel: Untitled [Lord Ramsay's Reel]
73. Reels: Untitled [Ships Are Sailing], Untitled [The High Reel]
74. Reel: Untitled [The Connemara Stocking] [END OF RELEVANT CONTENT ON BAND THREE]
75. Reel: Untitled [Rolling in the Ryegrass; incomplete]
76. Reels: Untitled [Down the Broom], Untitled [The Gatehouse Maid]
77. Reels: Untitled [The Shoemaker's Daughter; composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [The Eel in the Sink]
78. Reels: Untitled [Toss the Feathers], Untitled [The College Grove]
79. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's Chickens]
80. Reel: Untitled [Trim the Velvet]
81. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Ryan's Dream], Untitled [Mamma's Pet]
82. Reels: Untitled [The High Reel], Untitled [The Mason's Apron]
83. Reels: Untitled [The Shoemaker's Daughter; composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [The Eel in the Sink]
84. Reels: Untitled [Lady Gordon], Untitled [Johnny When You Die], Untitled [The Old Blackthorn], Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [The Wild Irishman], Untitled [The Boyne Hunt]
85. Carolan Piece: Untitled [Carolan's Concerto]
86. Reels: Untitled [Down the Broom], Untitled [Tim Moloney]
87. Reels: Untitled [Lord Gordon], Untitled [Colonel Rodney] [END OF BAND TWO]

Larry Masterson Collection. Reel-to-Reel 3 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Lloyd, Jim, London, speech in English throughout tracks A1–24, C1–28;
Dubliners, The, Dublin, folk group / singing in English A2;
Collins, Shirley, singing in English A3;
speech in English A9, 19, 21;
singing in English to (own?) banjo accompaniment A10, 20, 23;
Johnstons, The, folk group / singing in English A5;
Rennard, Jon, singing in English to (own?) guitar accompaniment A6;
Tansey, Seamus, Sligo, flute in duet A7;
Raven, Mike, speech in English A8;
Unidentified performers, instrumental groups A8, B6, D4, 9;
Cold Iron, Swansea, folk group / singing in English A11;
Lynskey, Eileen, Swansea, singing in English to (own?) guitar accompaniment A13;
Makem, Tommy, Armagh / New York, singing in English to (own?) instrumental accompaniment A14;
speech in English A14–16;
singing in English to instrumental accompaniment A15–18;
Ryder, Pete, Salford, speech in English A18;
singing in English to own guitar accompaniment A19;
Unidentified performers, singing in English to instrumental accompaniment A21, D3, 5, 14–18;
singing in English to (own?) guitar accompaniment D1–2, 12–13;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A21;
Fairport Convention, folk group / instrumental performance A24, C1, 25;
Unidentified performer [McKenna, Barney, Dublin?], banjo in duet B1–5, 9–15;
banjo in instrumental group B6;
Unidentified performer [Kelly, Luke, Dublin?], singing in English to instrumental accompaniment B7–8;
Unidentified performer (Bourke, Ciaran, Dublin?), speech in English B15, 18;
singing in English to (own?) guitar accompaniment B16–17;
singing in English B18;
Pentangle, folk group / singing in English C2;
High Level Ranters, The, Newcastle, folk group / singing in English C3, 14, 26;
speech in English C9, 13;
folk group / instrumental performance C10, 20;
Rose, Tony, singing in English to (own?) concertina accompaniment C4;
Swindlefolk, Liverpool, folk group / singing in an unidentified language C6;
Harris, Suzanne, singing in English to vocal and instrumental accompaniment C7;
Storyteller, folk group / singing in English C9;
Roberts, Bob, Norwich, singing in English to (own?) concertina accompaniment C11;
Hall, Tony, Norwich, melodeon solo C12;
Mitchell, Joni, singing in English to (own?) guitar accompaniment C15;
singing in English to (own?) guitar accompaniment & vocal accompaniment C16–17;
Raven, Jon, Wolverhampton, speech in English C17;
singing in English to (own?) guitar accompaniment C18;
Guest, Roy, singing in English to (own?) guitar accompaniment C22;
speech in English C23, 25;
Collins, Judy, singing in English to instrumental accompaniment C24;
Unidentified performer [Byrnes, Martin, Galway / London], fiddle in duet D7–8;
fiddle in instrumental group D9;
Unidentified performer [O'Donnell, Al?], singing in English to (own?) guitar accompaniment D10–11

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement, marking the beginning of an edition of the radio programme 'Folk on Friday']
2. Song, Speech: The Molly Maguires, Untitled [Radio announcement]
3. Song: The Handsome Drummer
4. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
5. Song, Speech: Untitled [I Never Will Marry], Untitled [Radio announcement]
6. Song, Speech: Broom Besoms, Untitled [Radio announcement]
7. Jig: Untitled [The Battering Ram]
8. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview; clipped at end]
9. Instrumental Piece, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
10. Song, Speech: The Bold Fisherman, Untitled [Radio announcement]
11. Song: Untitled
12. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
13. Song, Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [The Cruel War; incomplete], Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled (incomplete), Untitled [Radio announcement]
14. Song, Speech: The Little Beggar Man, Untitled [Radio announcement]
15. Song, Speech: Henry Joy (incomplete), Untitled [Radio announcement]
16. Song, Speech: Winds of Morning, Untitled [Radio announcement]
17. Song: The Butcher Boy (incomplete)
18. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Farewell to Nova Scotia, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
19. Song, Speech: These Days, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
20. Song, Speech: The Outlandish Knight, Untitled [Radio announcement]
21. Song, Speech, Song, Speech, Song, Song: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview], Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement and interviews], Untitled [The Black Velvet Band], Untitled
22. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
23. Song, Speech: The Banks of the Bann, Untitled [Radio announcement]
24. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Toss the Feathers; signature tune of radio programme; clipped at end], Untitled [Final radio announcement of this edition of 'Folk on Friday'; as voice-over] [END OF BAND ONE]
25. Reel: Untitled [The Humours of Scarriff]
26. Jigs: Untitled [The Piper's Chair], Untitled [Bill Harte's Jig], Untitled [The Knights of Saint Patrick]
27. Reel: Untitled [The Mullingar Races]
28. Reel: Untitled [Toss the Feathers; incomplete]
29. Reel: Untitled [Toss the Feathers]
30. Instrumental Piece: Untitled
31. Song: Untitled [The Jail of Cluain Meala]
32. Song: Untitled [An Bonnan Bui / The Yellow Bittern]
33. Reels: Untitled [The Heather Breeze], Untitled [The Flowers of Edinburgh]
34. March & Reel: Untitled [The Drunken Piper]
35. Instrumental Piece: Untitled
36. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Drunken Sailor]
37. Waltz: Untitled
38. Reel: Untitled [The London Lasses]
39. Speech: Untitled [About the song to be performed next]
40. Song: Untitled [The Trip to Jerusalem; written by Joe Dolan, founder member of the folk group 'Sweeney's Men']
41. Song: Untitled [The Trip to Jerusalem; written by Joe Dolan; clipped at start]
42. Speech, Song: Untitled, Untitled [The Traveller All Over the World] [END OF BAND FOUR]
43. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Lark in the Morning; signature tune of the BBC radio programme 'Folk on Friday', marking the beginning of an edition], Untitled [Radio announcement]
44. Song, Speech: Light Flight, Untitled [Radio announcement]
45. Song, Speech: We Went Along a Bit Further, Untitled [Radio announcement]
46. Song: The Bell Ringing (incomplete)
47. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
48. Song, Speech: Viva, Untitled [Radio announcement]
49. Song: We're Using Up the World
50. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
51. Song, Speech: The Ballad of Old Three Laps, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
52. Slip Jigs: Untitled, Untitled, Untitled
53. Song, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Instrumental Piece: Untitled
55. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
56. Song: Buy Broom Besoms
57. Speech, Song, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Conversation, Untitled [Radio announcement]
58. Song, Speech: The Circle Game, Untitled [Radio announcement]
59. Song, Speech: Big Yellow Taxi, Untitled [Radio announcement and interview]
60. Song: The Queen of Hearts
61. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
62. Rants / Reels: Untitled [Staten Island], Untitled [Da Tushkar]
63. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
64. Song: Cosher Bailey's Engine
65. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; an account of Roy Guest's career; including snatches of music from The Weavers, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, and others]
66. Song: Untitled
67. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Rakish Paddy], Untitled [Radio announcement]
68. Song: Hexamshire Lass
69. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
70. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Toss the Feathers; signature tune of radio programme; clipped at end], Untitled [Final radio announcement of this edition of 'Folk on Friday'; as voice-over] [END OF BAND THREE]
71. Song: Untitled
72. Song: Untitled
73. Song: Untitled [The Hills of Connemara]
74. Reels Untitled [The Mountain Road; composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [O'Rourke's]
75. Song: Untitled [The Trees They Do Grow High]
76. Song: Untitled [Route to the Blue]
77. Reels: Untitled [Maudabawn Chapel; composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [The Longford Collector]
78. Set Dance: Untitled [The Blackbird]
79. Reels: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail], Untitled [The Sligo Maid]
80. Songs: Untitled [Sammy's Bar], Untitled [The Maid on the Mountain; melody: The Munster Cloak]
81. Song: Untitled [The Spanish Lady]
82. Song: Untitled [Henry My Son]
83. Song: Untitled [The Recruiting Sergeant]
84. Song: Untitled [The Town of Kiandra]
85. Song: Untitled [Pretty Saro]
86. Song: Untitled [Come by the Hills]
87. Song: Untitled [The Handsome Cabin Boy]
88. Song: Untitled [Fiddlers' Green] [END OF BAND TWO]

Larry Masterson Collection. Reel-to-Reel 4 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Farrelly, Sean, London, accordion solo A1–7;
Unidentified performer(s), accordion in duet A8–12, 16–19;
accordion solo A13–15;
Unidentified performers, speech in English A8–12, 15, 17–18;
Unidentified performers, instrumental groups A20–21;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo A22;
Unidentified performer, bodhran in duet A8–12, 16–19

Running Order:
1. Hornpipe: Untitled [Caroline O'Neill's hornpipe]
2. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's chickens]
3. Reel: Untitled [The Sligo maid]
4. Reels: Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [The high reel]
5. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's chickens]
6. Waltz: Untitled [The bonnie boy is young]
7. March: Untitled [The boys of Wexford]
8. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [The hare's foot / the hare's paw], Untitled
9. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Bunker Hill], Untitled
10. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The yellow tinker, Untitled [The sally gardens; incomplete] [END OF BAND ONE]
11. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [I'm waiting for you], Untitled [The steeplechase], Untitled
12. Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [The bag of potatoes], Untitled
13. Jigs: Untitled [The frieze breeches], Untitled [Fasten the leg in her]
14. Jigs: Untitled [The Irish washerwoman], Untitled [The luckpenny]
15. Hornpipe, Speech: Untitled [The boys of Bluehill], Untitled
16. Reel: Untitled [The happy days of youth; McKenna's], Untitled [The Dublin reel]
17. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Andy McGann's reel], Untitled [The humours of Scarriff], Untitled
18. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled, Dinny O'Brien's [Composed by Paddy O'Brien], Farewell to Connacht, Untitled
19. Reel: Untitled [The merry harriers]
20. Reel: Untitled [The Kilmaley reel]
21. Jig: Untitled [Mac's fancy]
22. Jig: Untitled (incomplete) [END OF BAND TWO]

Larry Masterson Collection. Reel-to-Reel 6 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in duet A1, 7–8;
fiddle solo B10;
Collins, Kieran, Galway / London, whistle in duet A2;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English A2, 23;
Unidentified performer(s), pipes solo A3;
pipes in duet A7–8;
Ryan, Sean, Tipperary, fiddle in duet A4;
Moloney, P. J. / Maloney, P. J., Tipperary, flute in duet A4;
Unidentified performer [O Conluain, Proinsias, Dublin?], speech in English A4;
Unidentified performers, instrumental group(s) A5, 9, 22–24, B3, 5, 24, 26;
Unidentified performer(s), accordion solo A6, B1–2, 6–9, 11–23, 25, 27–29;
accordion in duet B4;
Tansey, Seamus, Sligo, flute solo A10–11, 15;
Coleman Country Ceili Band, The, Sligo, instrumental group A12, 17, 19;
Unidentified performer [O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin], speech in English A12, 16, 18, 29;
Unidentified performers, singing in English A13–14, 20–21;
Cooley, Joe, Galway / USA, accordion in instrumental group A22–24;
Farrelly, Sean, London, accordion, tracks B (unspecified);
Unidentified performer [de Buitlear, Eamon, Wicklow], speech in English and Irish B26;
Reck, Tommy, Dublin, pipes solo B26;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B30;
Unidentified performer, guitar in duet A1;
Teague, Frank, London, guitar in duet A2;
Unidentified performer, percussion in duet B4

Running Order:
1. Reel: Untitled [The maids of Castlebar]
2. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Miss McLeod's reel], Untitled [The copperplate], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
3. Reel: Untitled [The maid behind the bar; Kiss the maid behind the barrel]
4. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Fahy's favourite / Fahey's favourite; The Galway reel (CICD 2861, from Julia Clifford)], Untitled [Down the broom], Untitled [The first house in Connacht / Connaught], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
5. Jigs: Untitled [Paddy Fahey's jig / Paddy Fahy's jig; composed by Paddy Fahey / Paddy Fahy], Untitled [Related to 'The Killaloe boat'?], Untitled [Tonra's jig; composed by Brendan Tonra]
6. Reel: Untitled [Rossmore Jetty; Father Kelly's no. 2 / Father Kelly's number two; composed by Father P. J. Kelly]
7. Reels: Untitled [The old bush], Untitled [The Sligo maid]
8. Hornpipe: Untitled [The harvest home]
9. Jig: Untitled [Bill Harte's jig; The rookery]
10. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [Strike the gay harp]
11. Reels: Untitled [Lad O'Beirne's favourite], Untitled [Never was piping so gay; composed by Ed Reavy]
12. Jigs, Speech: Untitled [The first night in America], Untitled [Saddle the pony], Untitled [Radio announcement]
13. Song: Untitled
14. Song: Untitled [Old McDonald had a farm]
15. Hornpipe: Untitled [The western]
16. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; information about the tune selection that follows; four titles are supplied but only three tunes are played]
17. Reels: The first house in Connacht [The first house in Connaught], The London lassies [Supplied title is incorrect?; Geoghegan's], The traveller
18. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
19. Jig: Untitled [Paddy Clancy's]
20. Song: Untitled (incomplete)
21. Song: Untitled [The boys of the county Armagh]
22. Jigs: Untitled [The queen of the fair], Untitled [Out on the ocean]
23. Jigs, Speech: Untitled [The queen of the fair], Untitled [The rambling pitchfork], Untitled [Radio announcement]
24. Reel: Untitled [Dowd's number nine / Dowd's no. 9] [END OF BAND ONE]
25. Reels: Untitled [The shaskeen reel], Untitled [Buckley's fancy]
26. Jigs: Untitled [The Lough Derg jig; composed by Father P. J. Kelly], Untitled [The Nova Scotia]
27. Reels: Untitled [The old bush], Untitled [The high reel]
28. Reel: Untitled [The bag of potatoes / The bag of spuds]
29. Reel: Untitled [The humours of Lissadell]
30. Jig: Untitled [Richard Brennan's favourite]
31. Hornpipe: Untitled [Lad O'Beirne's; composed by Ed Reavy]
32. Jigs: Untitled [Jack Coen's jig; The Dundalk jig], Untitled [Katie's Fancy]
33. Jig: Untitled [The frieze breeches; incomplete]
34. Reel: Untitled [Paddy Fahy's reel / Paddy Fahey's reel; composed by Paddy Fahy / Fahey]
35. Jigs: Untitled [Andy McGann's], Untitled [Tonra's jig; composed by Brendan Tonra]
36. Reel: Untitled [The green groves of Erin]
37. Reel: Untitled [The copperplate (2)]
38. Hornpipe: Untitled [Cooley's hornpipe; composed by Paddy O'Brien]
39. Reels: Untitled [The boys of Ballisodare], Untitled [The five mile chase]
40. Reel: Untitled [The first house in Connacht / Connaught]
41. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Kelly's reel; composed by Paddy Kelly], Untitled [The sally gardens]
42. Hornpipe: Untitled [The cuckoo]
43. Reel: Untitled [Tear the calico]
44. Waltz: Untitled (incomplete)
45. Reel: Untitled [The morning mist; composed by Joe Burke]
46. Reels: Untitled [Ben Hill reel], Untitled [Rossmore Jetty; Father Kelly's no. 2, Father Kelly's number two] [Both tunes in this selection were composed by Father P. J. Kelly]
47. Jig: Untitled (incomplete)
48. Reel: Untitled [The Kilmaley]
49. Hornpipe: Untitled [The Ballyoran; composed by Sean Ryan]
50. Jig, Speech, Reels: Untitled [The coach road to Sligo], Untitled [Radio announcement], Bonnie Kate, Miss McLeod, Fermoy Lasses [This track contains a dubbing from an RTE radio programme]
51. Reels: Untitled [Castle Kelly], Untitled [Within a mile of Dublin]
52. Fling / Hornpipe, Hornpipe: Untitled [Mrs Galvin], Untitled [The western]
53. Speech, Jigs: Untitled [Radio announcement], The shady groves of Piedmont [Port an bhrathar / the Reverend Brother's jig], Sonny Brogan's jig [Bill Harte's jig; The rookery] [This track contains a dubbing from an RTE radio programme]
54. Speech: Untitled [END OF BAND TWO]

Larry Masterson Collection. Reel-to-Reel 7 [sound recording] / [various performers]

  • LMA-18613/1/259150
  • Item
  • 1966 (tracks A1–17, B1–7) ; June 1970 (tracks B24–27, C1–16) ; 1970 (tracks C17–29)
  • Part of Larry Masterson Collection

Performers:
McGlinchey, Brendan, Armagh / London, fiddle solo A1–17, B1–7;
speech in English A2;
Unidentified performers, speech in English throughout;
Peoples, Tommy, Donegal, fiddle solo B8, 11–23;
fiddle in duet B9–10;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet B9–10;
Casey, Bobby, Clare / London, fiddle in duet B24–27, C1–16;
O'Connor, Mick, London, banjo in duet C1, 4, 30;
Whyte, Aggie / White, Aggie, Galway, fiddle solo C17–29;
Unidentified performer, banjo in duet C30;
O'Connor, Mick, London, banjo in duet B24–27, C2–3, 5–16;
Unidentified performer, guitar in duet C30

Running Order:
1. Reels: Untitled [O'Rourke's reel], Untitled [The humours of Westport; The Clyde-side lassies]
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled, McLoughlin's reel
3. Reels: Untitled [The wheels of the world], Untitled [Music in the glen], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
4. Reels, Jigs: Untitled [Jenny's welcome to Charlie], Untitled [The pigeon on the gate], Untitled [Connie the soldier], Untitled [The Monaghan jig], Untitled [Hinchy's delight]
5. Hornpipe: Untitled [The drunken sailor]
6. Reels: Untitled [The humours of Ballyconnell], Untitled [The Galway rambler], Untitled [Wellington's; Sheehan's reel (related tune)]
7. Reels: Untitled [Colonel Rodger's reel; McKenna's number one], Untitled [The happy days of youth; McKenna's number two]
8. Reels: Untitled [Grandpa Tommy's ceili band; composed by Martin Mulhaire], Untitled [The yellow tinker]
9. Reels: Untitled [Tarbolton], Untitled [The Longford collector], Untitled [The sailor's bonnet]
10. Jigs: Untitled [Paddy Fahey's jig / Paddy Fahy's jig; composed by Paddy Fahey / Paddy Fahy], Untitled [Cailleach an airgid; The hag with the money]
11. Reels: Untitled [The devil in Dublin; The merry blacksmith (related tune)], Untitled [Sporting Paddy]
12. Reels: Untitled [The old bush], Untitled [The Galtee reel]
13. Reels: Untitled [Music in the glen], Untitled [Rakish Paddy]
14. Reels: Untitled [The jolly tinker], Untitled [The four courts]
15. Reel: Untitled [The Graf Spee; The grand spy]
16. Reel: Untitled [Lord Gordon]
17. Reel: Untitled [The fisherman's island, composed by Ed Reavy] [END OF BAND ONE]
18. Reels: Untitled [The fisherman's island, composed by Ed Reavy], Untitled [The college grove]
19. Reel: Untitled [The morning dew]
20. Reel: Untitled (incomplete)
21. Reels: Untitled [The Chicago reel], Untitled [The green fields of America]
22. Reels: Untitled [The steampacket], Untitled [Trim the velvet]
23. Reels: Untitled [Andy McGann's reel], Untitled [The humours of Scarriff]
24. Reels: Untitled [Down the broom], Untitled [The gatehouse maid; clipped at end] [There is distortion at the end of this track; this would be consistent with the distortion at the end of a reel-to-reel tape from which a dubbing was being made]
25. Jig: Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh]
26. Reel: Untitled [Crowley's reel # 1]
27. Jig: Untitled [Tom Billy's]
28. Reels: Untitled [Jackson's reel], Untitled [The oak tree]
29. Reel: Untitled [My love is fair and handsome]
30. Jig: Untitled [The Blarney pilgrim]
31. Reel: Untitled [The man of the house]
32. Reel: Untitled [The boys of Portaferry; clipped at end]
33. Reels: Untitled [Caher rua], Untitled [The wild Irishman]
34. Reel: Untitled [Bean an ti ar lar; Donegal tune, i.e., not the tune commonly known by this title]
35. Reel: Untitled [Toss the feathers]
36. Jig: Untitled [Langstern pony]
37. Reel: Untitled [La Cosa Mulligan (the title given to the tune by its composer, Tommy Peoples (the probable performer here)); Jackson's reel], Untitled [The green fields of Glentown; composed by Tommy Peoples]
38. Reel: Untitled
39. Reel: Untitled [Upstairs in a tent]
40. Reel: Untitled (incomplete)
41. Reels: Untitled [Micho Russell's], Untitled [Tom Ward's downfall]
42. Reels: Untitled [The wind that shakes the barley], Untitled [The Boyne hunt]
43. Jigs Untitled [The ship in full sail], Untitled [Jim Ward's], Untitled [The lark on the strand]
44. Reels: Untitled [Dan Breen's], Untitled [A fair wind], Untitled [The gravel walks], Untitled [McFadden's handsome daughter; clipped at end] [END OF BAND FOUR]
45. Reel: Untitled [The Mullingar races]
46. Reel: Untitled [Paddy Ryan's dream]
47. Reel: Untitled [Christmas Eve; Tommy Coen's reel; composed by Tommy Coen]
48. Reel: Untitled [The stone in the field]
49. Reels: Untitled [Faral Gara], Untitled [Martin Wynne's; composed by Martin Wynne]
50. Reel: Untitled [Coen's memories; composed by Tommy Coen; variant version played here]
51. Reel: Untitled
52. Reel: Untitled [The green mountain]
53. Reels: Untitled [Spike Island lasses], Untitled [O'Dowd's favourite]
54. Hornpipe: Untitled [The plains of Boyle]
55. Hornpipe: Untitled [Hawk hornpipe / Hawke's hornpipe]
56. Reels: Untitled [The reel of Rio; composed by Sean Ryan], Untitled [The ragged hank of yarn]
57. Reel: Untitled [Martin Wynne's 2; composed by Martin Wynne]
58. Reel: Untitled [The Galtee reel]
59. Jig: Untitled [The gold ring]
60. Hornpipe: Untitled [The drunken sailor] [END OF CONTENT ON BAND THREE][After track C16 band three is blank]
61. Reel: Untitled [The Culfada; composed by Larry Redican; Hit or miss (related tune)]
62. Reel: Untitled [The lads of Laois]
63. Speech, Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [The thrush in the bush; composed by (or, at least, associated with) Josephine Keegan], Untitled [The frost is all over]
64. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The maid behind the bar [The barmaid]
65. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Untitled [Paddy Fahey's reel / Paddy Fahy's reel; composed by Paddy Fahey / Paddy Fahy]
66. Reel: Untitled [Derrycrag reel; composed by Father P J Kelly]
67. Reels: Untitled [Paddy Kelly's reel], Untitled [Miss Thornton]
68. Air, Reel: Untitled [Se fath mo bhuartha], Untitled [The shaskeen reel]
69. March: Untitled
70. Jig: Untitled [Connie O'Connell's jig]
71. Reel: Untitled [The high reel]
72. Reels: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Jenny's chickens]
73. Jig: Untitled [Tonra's jig; composed by Brendan Tonra]
74. Reels: Untitled [The repeal of the Union], Untitled [The trip to Durrow] [END OF CONTENT ON BAND TWO] [After track C30 band two is blank]