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Performers:
Unidentified performers, speech in English A1-2, singing in English with guitar A3, 7-8, whistle A3-4;
Brennan, Caroline, speech in English A1;
Scammel, Arthur, speech in English A2, singing in English A2, 8;
Slade, Linda, speech in English A3, singing in English A3;
Payne, Jim, speech in English A4, 7, singing in English with guitar A4, 7;
Bowman Family, speech in English A5, accordion and whistle duet A5;
Maher, Frank ?, accordion and whistle duet A7;
Strong, Gerry ?, accordion and whistle duet A7

Running Order:
1. Speech [funny versus serious stories] ; Speech [talk about a bad storm in Placentia Bay, 1927] / [Unidentified speaker] ; Caroline Brennan, speech in English
2. Speech [introduction] ; Long may your big jib draw, song / [Unidentified speaker] ; Art Scammell, singing in English, speech in English, composer
3. We'll rant and we'll roar, song / Linda Slade, singing in English ; [Unidentified singers, guitar, tin whistle]
4. Speech [introduction] ; My brother John, song / Jim Payne, singing in English, guitar, speech in English
5. Speech [introduction] ; Green grow the rushes O, reel / Bowman family, accordion, tin whistle, speech in English
6. Mussels in the corner, [Unidentified tune], [unidentified tune], singles / Frank Maher, accordion ; Gerry Strong, tin whistle
7. Speech [introduction] ; So long it's been good to know you, song / Jim Payne, singing in English, guitar, arranger ; Woody Guthrie, composer ; [unidentified singer]
8. Squid Jiggin Ground, song / Art Scammell, singing in English ; [Unidentified singer] ; [Unidentified guitar] [END OF STEREO BANDS]

Performers:
Mercer, Paul, speech in English A1-9, singing in English A3, 6;
O'Hara, Aidan, speech in English throughout;
Unidentified performer, incidental speech in English A2, 4, 7, 9

Running Order:
1. Speech [Johnny Burke's song 'The Killago [?] soiree', song refers to people from St. John’s, e.g., Flipper Smith and Caroline] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Paul Mercer, speech in English
2. Speech [Johnny Burke's song 'Who put the herring on the booze', taking the local paper to court] / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Paul Mercer, speech in English ; [unidentified speaker]
3. Who put the herring on the booze, song / Paul Mercer, singing in English, speech in English ; Johnny Burke, composer
4. Speech [local poets, the Poet’s Rest Tavern] / Paul Mercer, speech in English ; [unidentified speaker]
5. Speech [Johnny Burke's play 'Cotton's patch' about Major Sydney Cotton] / Paul Mercer, speech in English
6. Cotton's patch [song from Cotton’s perspective, sung to the melody for ‘Betsy from Pike’], song / Paul Mercer, singing in English ; Johnny Burke, lyricist
7. Speech [Johnny Burke's song 'The stoppage of water'] / [unidentified speaker] ; Paul Mercer, speech in English
8. The stoppage of water, recitation ; Speech [Burke as a humourist; selling Johnny Burke's ballads; The Regatta] / Paul Mercer, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; [unidentified speaker]
9. Speech [the plays of Johnny Burke, political and sporting songs, composing songs quickly for money] / Paul Mercer, speech in English ; [unidentified speaker] [END OF STEREO BANDS]