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Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 1

Speech [Talk about tunes used for dancing with examples; old songs heard from James' father with examples; Jimmy talks about the old dances: Haste to the Wedding, the Lancers, Quadrilles, Walls of Limerick, Siege of Limerick, Shoe the Donkey, Lannigan's Ball, Siege of Ennis, Maggie Pickens, etc.; gives the airs to them; songs he recalls his father singing: Mountain Streams where the Moorcock Crows, The Silvery Tide, Betsy Baker (sings a verse and says it has maybe ten verses, quite comical; see http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/supptrad.html)] ; Lannigan’s ball, air ; Maggie Pickens, air ; Betsy Baker, song / Aidan O’Hara, speech in English ; Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, lilting, singing in English
Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 5

Speech [song introduction] ; The hat McGuinness wore, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: the song just sung was written by local man, Neil Kearney from Carndonagh. McGuinness was from nearby Ballyloskey. Neil also wrote 'My Lovely Irish Rose' and 'The Green Fields of Annagh': The Hat McGuinness Wore, Untitled] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English ; Neil Kearney, composer [END OF BAND ONE]
Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 6

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 6

Speech [song introduction] ; Clonmany For Me, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: Jimmy sings a tongue-in-cheeky song, 'Clonmany for Me', written by Pat Lynch, Carndonagh. Jimmy said that Pat also wrote 'The Lighthouse Down at Bunagee' - and the funny part of it all was that there's no lighthouse at Bunagee - 'The Banks of the Shannon'. Pat was a comedian, Jimmy said. He did recitations like 'An Angel Grew Tired of Heaven'. Pat and Neil Kearney were contemporaries of Harry Lauder and the pair met him one time. Harry wanted them to travel with him on his world tour, he thought they were so good] / Jimmy Clingan, speech in English, singing in English; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English
Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 7

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 7

The mountain streams where the moorcocks crow, song ; Speech [Information provided by AOH: The performer says that he heard his mother singing it, a very old song as old as you'd get anywhere. http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46396 ; also http://www.informatik.unihamburg.de/~zierke/peter.bellamy/songs/themountainstreamswherethemoorcockscrow.html / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English, speech in English
Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 8

Aidan O'Hara Collection. Reel-to-Reel 95 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 8

Speech [The performer introduces the next song, saying it's a dream a girl had about her lover] ; My love he is a miner lad, singing in English; Speech [Information provided by A O'H: the lad in question is named John Sleddin in the song (see the same song, ITMA Reference Number: 185-ITMA-MP3, recorded by Jimmy McBride)] / Jimmy Clingan, singing in English, speech in English ; Aidan O’Hara, speech in English
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