Part MOC-258273/259298/11 - Mick O'Connor Collection. Reel-to-Reel 5 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 11

Notes:
The Mick O'Connor Reel-to-Reel tape collection was loaned to ITMA by Mick O'Connor, Dublin. The collection originally belonged to John Brennan, Sligo / Dublin; it was largely compiled by John Brennan.
Judging from the evidence on the tape, I would guess that the sequence of events in the making of band 1 of this tape might have been as follows:
1) Recordings were made in the USA (New York and Chicago) and the UK (London) on acetate disc recording equipment. This equipment might have included (in New York) a machine built by Lad O'Beirne.
2) The resulting acetates were recorded onto a tape medium by Bridget Wynne (Martin Wynne's sister), who added a spoken commentary. That tape was sent to the Hunt brothers in Sligo.
3) The Hunt brothers dubbed that tape (possibly in an edited version) onto another tape, adding their own spoken commentary. That tape came into the possession of John Brennan.
4) John Brennan dubbed an edited version of the Hunt tape onto another tape, adding his own spoken commentary on top of those by Bridget Wynne and the Hunt brothers. That is the tape that is digitised here.
J Small, October 2005
The sound quality on most of band 1 is extremely poor; this is remarked on by John Brennan in his commentary.
Band 1 digitised and catalogued from the reel-to-reel tape by Jackie Small, completed October 2005.
Bands 3 and 2 digitised and catalogued from the reel-to-reel tape by Jackie Small, completed November 2005.
Label affixed to original tape: 'MOC RR 10'
Some of the material on bands 3 & 2 has not been digitised, either because it contains poor-quality dubs of commercial recordings or because it contains poor-quality dubs of material that ITMA has already in better quality.
THE INFORMATION THAT FOLLOWS IS A DRAFT FULL LISTING OF THE CONTENTS OF TRACKS 3 AND 2, INCLUDING THE MATERIAL THAT WAS NOT DIGITISED.
Some tracks on Band 3 contain poor-quality dubs of material that ITMA has already in better quality, and of material that is available on commercial recordings; this material has not been digitised.
1. Air, Speech: Untitled [The Lark in the Clear Air; signature tune of the RTE Sunday morning radio programme Mo Cheol Thu. Tracks B1–10 are probably all home recordings from various editions of this programme], Untitled [Radio announcement]
2. Reels: The Thatched Cottage [The High Reel; tune is associated with Joe Cooley and with Tommy White], The Morning Star
3. Slip Jig, Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Promenade], The Congress Reel
4. Speech, Slip Jig: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Inchiquin's Barn Dance]
5. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [The Moving Cloud], Untitled [The Rainy Day]
6. Speech, Reels, Air, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement], Untitled [Drag Her around the Road], Untitled [Lucy Campbell], [The Lark in the Clear Air; signature tune of RTE Sunday morning radio programme Mo Cheol Thu], Untitled [Radio announcements]
7. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Donegal Reel], Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel], Untitled [Information about this recording]
8. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Martin Wynne's no. 2; composed by Martin Wynne], Untitled [The Longford Tinker], Untitled [Radio announcement]
9. Jig, Speech: Untitled [Cherish the Ladies], Untitled [Radio announcement]
10. Polkas, Speech: Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka], Untitled [The Knocknaboul Polka no. 2], Untitled [Information about this recording
11. Reel: Untitled
12. Reel: Untitled
13. Reel, Speech: Untitled, Untitled [Information about this recording]
OMIT Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Swallow's Tail; two tracks playing together], Untitled [Information about this recording]
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
OMIT Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Morning Star], Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel] ex Touhey 78, Untitled [Information about this recording]
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
OMIT Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn], Untitled [The Duke of Leinster], Untitled [Information about this recording] Carney & Morrison
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
14. Hornpipes, Speech: Untitled [Murphy's Hornpipe], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe; The Londonderry Hornpipe], Untitled [Information about this recording]
OMIT Hornpipes, Speech: Untitled [The Plains of Boyle], Untitled [The Leitrim Fancy], Untitled [Information about this recording]
HAVE BETTER RECORDING
OMIT Reel: Untitled [The Dunmore Lasses] tom morrison
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
15. Reels, Speech: Fahy's Reel [Paddy Fahy's Reel; composed by Paddy Fahy], The Ewe Reel, Untitled [Information about this recording]
16. Jig: Untitled [The Cliffs of Moher; followed by disjointed recordings]
17. Jig: Untitled [Sixpenny Money]
OMIT Jig: Untitled [The Yellow Wattle] Willie Clancy (visit from NPU to, shortly before his death)
All the Willie Clancy that follows is available in better quality on 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Reel: Untitled [The Milliner's Daughter]
1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Pretty Girls of Mayo], Untitled [Information about this recording]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Dublin Reel; played in two different keys], Untitled [Information about this recording]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Jig: Untitled , Untitled [Information about this recording]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Jig: Untitled [Same tune as last, this time on whistle; played in two different keys], Untitled [Information about this recording]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Reel: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Reel: Untitled [The Braes of Busby]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Jig, Speech: Untitled [A Chailleach do Mharais Me], Untitled [Information about this recording]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Untitled [The Boy in the Gap], Untitled [Information about this recording]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Reel: Untitled [The Old Wheels of the World ?], Untitled [Information about this recording]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
18. Jigs, Speech: Untitled [The Maid on the Green], Untitled [Jackson's Jig], Untitled [Information (inaccurate) about this recording]
19. Reels, Speech: Untitled [Scotch Mary], Untitled [The Flogging Reel], Untitled [Information (inaccurate) about this recording]
OMIT Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Bunch of Keys], Untitled [Rakish Paddy], Untitled [The Bunch of Keys], j doran Untitled [Information about this recording]
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
20. Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob], Untitled [Sixpenny Money], Untitled [Paidin O Raifeartaigh], Untitled [Information about this recording]
OMIT Reels, Speech: Untitled [Drowsy Maggie], Untitled [Scotch Mary], Untitled [Miss McLeod's Reel]
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
OMIT more touhey
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
21. Speech, Jig: Untitled [Information about the previous item on the tape; that item was not digitised], Untitled [Tommy Cowley's Jig]
22. Jig: Untitled [The Castlebar Races / The Races of Castlebar]
23. Jig: Untitled [Paddy's Resource]
24. Jig, Speech: Untitled [Paddy in London], Untitled [Information about this recording] John McFadden cylinder [END OF RELEVANT MATERIAL ON BAND THREE]
Band Two starts with a dub of the LP 'Paddy Keenan' (Gael-Linn CEF 045); this has not been digitised. This band also contains poor-quality dubs of material by Willie Clancy that ITMA has already in better quality, and of material by Johnny Doran and Patsy Touhey that is available on commercial recordings; this material has not been digitised.
OMIT Speech: Untitled [Information about]
OMIT Jig: Untitled [The Yellow Wattle]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Reel: Untitled [The Milliner's Daughter]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Pretty Girls of Mayo], Untitled [Information about this recording]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Jig: Untitled , Untitled [Information about this recording]
OMIT Jig: Untitled [Same tune as last, this time on whistle; played in two different keys], Untitled [Information about this recording]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
OMIT Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Braes of Busby], Untitled [Information about this recording]
See 1161-ITMA-REEL
25. Jig: Untitled [Jackson's Jig]
26. Speech, Reels, Speech: Untitled [Information (inaccurate) about the previous track], Untitled [The Flogging Reel], Untitled [Lucy Campbell], Untitled [Information about this recording; indistinct]
OMIT Reel, Speech, Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Bunch of Keys], Untitled [Information about this recording], Untitled [Rakish Paddy] j doran
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
27. Jig, Speech, Jig, Speech: Untitled [The Pipe on the Hob], Untitled [Information about this recording], Untitled [Down the Back Lane], Untitled [Information about this recording]
OMIT Reels, Speech: Untitled [Scotch Mary], Untitled [The Flogging Reel], Untitled [Information about this recording]
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
28. Jig: Untitled [Tommy Cowley's Jig]
OMIT Jig, Speech: Untitled [Paddy in London], Untitled [Information about this recording] John McFadden cylinder
HAVE BETTER RECORDING
OMIT Reel: Untitled [Halligan's Fancy], Untitled [Information about this recording]
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
OMIT Reel, Speech: Untitled [The Steampacket], Untitled [Information about this recording]
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
OMIT Reels: Untitled [The Ravelled Hank of Yarn], Untitled [The Duke of Leinster]
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
OMIT Reel, Speech: Untitled [Colonel Fraser], Untitled [Information about this recording]
HAVE ALREADY ON COMMERCIAL RECORDING
29. Reel: Untitled
30. Reel: Untitled [The Cup of Tea (version of)] j doherty
31. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Glencolmcille], Untitled [Information about this recording] [END OF BAND TWO]
Imported from Reeldubs July 2013

The music on tracks A1–41 consists of edited dubbings made by John Brennan of recordings originally made in the USA.

Some tracks on Band 3 contain poor-quality dubs of material that ITMA has already in better quality, and of material that is available on commercial recordings; this material has not been digitised.

Band Two starts with a dub of the LP 'Paddy Keenan' (Gael-Linn CEF 045); this has not been digitised. This band also contains poor-quality dubs of material by Willie Clancy that ITMA has already in better quality, and of material by Johnny Doran and Patsy Touhey that is available on commercial recordings; this material has not been digitised.

Documentation:
Spoken information on tape ; See related ephemera ; Carton: 'M. Regans Tape / Coventry 1970 / M. Regan's Tape / Coventry 1970'