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- [c. 1967] (Creation)
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1 audio reel
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Biographical history
Richard ‘Dick’ Cameron was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1929. He came to Ireland in the mid-1950s and was heavily involved in the folk revival of the 1960s and 1970s and instrumental in the establishment of the An Góilín Singers Club, founded by Tim Dennehy and Dónal de Barra in 1979. His warm baritone made him popular on the radio, where he hosted the Ballads of a Saturday series on Radio Telefís Éireann and appeared in many other folk music programmes. He died in Dublin in 1997.
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Reel containing a recording of a programme in the Radio Telefís Éireann series Cabaret Gael Linn, in which Martin Fay, Seán Potts and Muiris Kennedy perform the songs ‘Peigín Leitir Móir’ and ‘Vanish Misfortune’; Dick Cameron and Elizabeth Colclough perform ‘Sweet Nightingale’, Dick Cameron performs ‘Hiram Hubbard’; Fay, Potts and Kennedy perform ‘Twenty Men from Dublin Town’ and ‘Anach Cuain’, Cameron and Colclough perform ‘Liza Jane’, Elizabeth Colclough performs ‘Mary Hamilton (The Four Marys)’, Fay, Potts and Kennedy perform ‘An Poc ar Buile’ and ‘Mo Mhúirnín Bán’; Cameron performs ‘New York Girls (Can’t You Dance the Polka)’, Cameron and Colclough perform ‘Kisses Sweeter than Wine’; and Fay, Potts and Kennedy perform ‘Buachaill on Éirne’, ‘Siobhán Ní Dhuibhir’ and an instrumental piece, which concludes the programme. After a small break in the recording, there follow three programmes in the Radio Telefís Éireann series Ballads of a Saturday, hosted by Dick Cameron. The first two programmes feature Tom Paxton, who in the first programme performs the songs ‘The Last Thing on My Mind’, ‘Georgie on the Freeway’ and ‘Victoria Dines Alone’. The programme concludes with Dick Cameron singing ‘Bottle of Wine’. The recording suffers from wow and flutter. In the second programme, Paxton performs the songs ‘The Marvelous Toy’, ‘I Can’t Help but Wonder Where I’m Bound’, ‘Sully’s Pail’ and ‘Ramblin’ Boy’. The quality of the recording is poor. The third programme, broadcast on 26 August 1967, features Sharon Collen, who performs the songs ‘The Lass from the Low Country’, ‘Darcy Farrow’ and ‘Jamie (Dewy Dells of Yarrow)’. The progamme ends abruptly. It is followed by Dick Cameron singing the song ‘The Bonny Cuckoo’ twice. The recording suffers from wow and flutter. The reel concludes with a recording of a radio programme for children, in which Dick Cameron performs the songs ‘The Barnyard Song’, ‘Going to the Zoo’, ‘Uncle Reuben’, ‘The Monkey and the Elephant’ and ‘Jig Along Home’. Duration 01:49:53.
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- English
- Irish
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Reel of magnetic tape requiring a reel-to-reel player.