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Long play vinyl record entitled Dick Cameron: Songs for Children, containing songs sung by Dick Cameron, accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar. Tracks on Side I include ‘Beaver Creek’, Get Along Little Dogies’, Whipsie Diddle’, ‘The Bullfrog Song’, ‘The Barnyard Song’, ‘Johnny from the West’, ‘The Fox’, ‘Brian O Linn’, ‘Cape Cod Girls’ and ‘Jenny Jenkins’. Tracks on Side II include ‘The Cat Came Back’, ‘The Squirrel’, ‘Casey Jones’, ‘Mary Had a Baby’, ‘Uncle Rueben’, ‘Rooster O Rooster’, Bold Bangum’ and ‘Johnny Appleseed’. Label: Crannog Records. Total duration 00:43:04.

Long play vinyl record entitled Irish Folk Songs and Ballads, containing songs sung by Dick Cameron, accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar. Tracks on Side I include ‘Galway City’, ‘The Lowlands of Holland’, ‘The Growling Old Woman’, ‘Love It Is a Killing Thing’, ‘Bold Captain Freeny’, ‘The Rambling Irishman’, ‘Johnny from the West’, ‘I Was Told by My Aunt’ and ‘The Seven Irish Boys’. Tracks on Side II include ‘The Comber Ballad’, ‘Brian O’Linn’, ‘The Maid That Sold Her Barley’, ‘Nothing to Do’, ‘The Kerry Moonlighters’, ‘Johnny the Daisy-O', ‘Down the Moor’, ‘The Cruise of the Calabar’ and ‘The Green Fields of Americay’. Label: Folkways Records and Service Corp., New York City, USA. Total duration 00:52:37.

Audio reel beginning with a home recording of a woman, identified on the cover of the reel as ‘Mary Mc’, singing ‘The Lark in the Morning’, ‘Let No Man Steal Your Thyme’ and ‘The Tunnel Tigers’. This is followed by Dick Cameron singing ‘Wanderin’’. The recording returns to the woman, who sings ‘The Bramble Briar’, ‘Reynard the Fox’, ‘Reynardine’, ‘A Lover’s Ghost’, ‘The Highland Widow’s Lament’ and ‘My Bonny Miner Lad’. This is followed by a recording of a programme [from the Radio Telefís Éireann series Cabaret Gael Linn?] featuring The Press Gang singing ‘Drunken Sailor’ and ‘Two Young Brethren’; Dick Cameron singing ‘Said Judas to Mary’; The Press Gang singing ‘Reuben Ranzo’ and ‘Banks of Claudy’; Dick Cameron singing ‘Lukey’s Boat’; a woman singing ‘Suzanne’; and two women singing the first beats of ‘Let Him Go, Let Him Tarry’ before the recording stops abruptly. The reel concludes with a home recording of Dick Cameron singing ‘Old Bangum’ and The Newry Higwayman’. Duration 00:58:10.

This series contains recordings on audio reels of songs performed by Dick Cameron and radio programmes hosted by him.

This series contains recordings on cassette tapes of songs performed by Dick Cameron.

Audio reel containing a home recording of a man, identified on the cover of the reel as 'Tom', singing four songs beginning with the lines ‘Thank you my dear paperboy for the paper I will read tonight’; ‘You bolt right up out of bed find your hands clasped tightly round your head’; ‘Empty bar rooms of conversation, wouldn’t people still remain’; and ‘Rain on the roof, here today, gone tomorrow’. These are followed by an instrumental piece on the guitar and four songs beginning with the lines ‘Left a lot behind me in the bleakness of the trees’; ‘Hands red with the cold, that’s a sure sign that I’m getting old’; ‘Thus ran my child in the sun of gold across the sand’; ‘The candy shop on the corner’s closed’. These are followed by an instrumental piece on the guitar and a further four songs beginning with the lines ‘A touching smile, sparkling, beautiful’; ‘Windows covered up with frost’; ‘You’re Francis Russell B.A. you’re freshly out of West Point’; and ‘I’m a poor man, I never had much in the way of things’. Duration 00:48:32.

Audio reel containing a home recording of Dick Cameron and David Hammond singing and playing songs singly and together. The songs included on the reel are ‘Come All Ye Tramps and Hawkers’, ‘Whiskey in a Jar’ (short fragment only), ‘Ploughman Lads’, ‘Juice of the Barley’ (short fragment only), ‘The Hills of Granemore (The Hare of Granemore)’, ‘The Leaving of Liverpool (Fare Thee Well, My Own True Love)’, ‘The Jolly Tinker’, ‘Be Kind to Belfast’, song beginning with the line ‘Come all you loyal Orangemen and in full chorus join’ and ‘The Aughalee Heroes’. Sound quality is variable and often poor. Duration 00:20:29.

Audio reel containing a home recording of songs sung and played by Dick Cameron and [David Hammond?]. The songs included on the reel are ‘Herring Croon’, ‘Barb’ra Allyn’, a song containing lyrics loosely based on the last verse of Section 54 of Alfred Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam A. H. H., ‘Worried Man Blues’, ‘Haul Away Joe’, ‘Dicey Reilly’, ‘Whiskey Is the Life of Man (Whiskey Johnny O’)’, ‘Boston Harbour’, ‘My Donald’ and an unidentified song. The recording concludes with the two men telling jokes. Duration 00:33:55.

Audio reel containing a home recording of Dick Cameron performing the songs ‘High Germany’, ‘John Riley’, ‘The Old Man’s Song’, ‘Leezy Lindsay’ and ‘Autumn Has Come’. The last song ends abruptly and is followed by a recording of part of a radio programme [presumably Ballads of a Saturday], in which Angela Byrne sings the songs ‘Sloop John B’, ‘The Bold Fenian Men’, ‘The Further Rim’ and ‘Anathea’. The recording cuts off abruptly as the last song is ending. Duration 00:25:20.

Audio reel containing a home recording of Dick Cameron signing songs and accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar. The songs included on the reel are ‘Corpus Christi Carol’ (with poor sound quality), ‘The Seven Virgins’, ‘Said Judas to Mary’, ‘The Lord of the Dance’ and ‘Corpus Christi Carol’ (with better sound quality). Duration 00:18:32.