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Current Catalogue Entry
| Tape | NPS-JFC-C-038-01 | Length m | 30m | Date rec’d | Quality | ||
| Title | End of Gathering with B.P. [BillyPigg]; Monkseaton Rapper; Music Boxes | Contents | Live recording of a Northumbrian Gathering. | ||||
| Notes | MC is Bill Charlton, named by morris men but also voice ident. Possibly a continuation of NPS-JFC-C-024, which also had Bill Charlton, Monkseaton Morris and Dennis Weatherly but band name doesn’t sound like Cheviot Ranters. MD | ||||||
| Help | Identification of date. Identification of tunes. Explanation of musical box recording | ||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0:12-0:43 | Brief snatch of music box | The brief snatch here and again at the end suggests that the Gathering was recorded over it. | MD GM | ||
| 0:43-5:42 | Billy Pigg | Northumbrian Gathering (named); Madame Bonaparte; Bill Charlton’s Fancy | MD | ||
| 5:42-13:45 | Morris Dancers with Colin Ross on fiddle | Several Fast Jigs | presumably the Monkseaton Rapper on the label | MD | |
| 14:32-19:15 | Indistinctly named group with Dennis Weatherly | Unid/unid/unid; Blaydon Races (song); unid | MD | ||
| 20:02-30:14 | Musical Box | Several tunes including UK and US national anthems | Musical box is a good quality one with a large range of notes on the comb plus several bells but not at all clear if it’s a live recording | MD | |
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