Unidad documental simple 5 - Recordings of four episodes of ‘Ballads of a Saturday’

1 audio reel

Audio reel containing recordings of four programmes in the Radio Telefís Éireann series Ballads of a Saturday produced by Colin Morrison and hosted by Dick Cameron and Elizabeth Colclough. In the first programme, they perform the songs ‘The Old Woman from Wexford’, ‘The Turtle Dove’, ‘The Keeper’, ‘I Never Will Marry’, ‘Old Joe Clark’ and ‘Pretty Little Miss (I’ll Be Sixteen on Suday)’. In the second programme, they perform the songs ‘New York Girls (Can’t You Dance the Polka)’, ‘Coulter’s Candy’, ‘She’s Like the Swallow’, ‘The Banks of the Roses’ and ‘Sweet Nightingale’. In the third programme, they preform the songs ‘Liza Jane’, ‘Mary Hamilton (The Four Marys)’, ‘Time to Be Made a Wife’, ‘Diamond Joe (Roll on Boys)’ and ‘Pick a Bale of Cotton’. In the fourth programme, they perform the songs ‘Johnson Boys’, ‘Farewell, Dearest Nancy’, ‘A Great Big Sea Hove in Long Beach’, ‘Whistle, Daughter, Whistle’, ‘Sally Goodin’ and the children’s song ‘Jig Along Home’. The sound quality of the fourth programme is poor. Between programmes one and two is a fragment of another programme from the series, in which Kate Lucey sings the start of the song ‘The Gallows Tree’. Between programmes two and three is a fragment of a radio documentary about life in the nine glens of Antrim in the 1920s. The tape concludes with ‘Jessie’ singing the song ‘Marco Polo’ and Dick Cameron singing the song ‘The Kangaroo’ (sound quality very poor). Duration 01:13:08.

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Reel of magnetic tape requiring a reel-to-reel player.