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| Tape | NPS-JFC-3-034-SIDE-A | Batch | 2 | Length m | 48 | Date Rec’d | ||
| Title | Borderers in Newcastle Guildhall 10 02 1979 first-tape | Contents | Live event with ceilidh caller, sounds of dancing, and occasional chatter. | |||||
| Quality | ||||||||
| Notes | Some of calls and names of dances might be retrievable but much of it is too faint. Radio station at end is possibly Irish | |||||||
| Help | Identification of tunes and caller Confirmation of place, date and the name of the band | |||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:3:35 | The Borderers? (whole tape) | Unid/Because He Was/Salmon Tails/Nancy | Fiddle, piano accordion, ? guitar, ?drums | Same band throughout | MD |
| 4:00-8.30 | Nutting Girl/In Good King Henry’s Day/The Flowing Bowl/unid/Winster Gallop | MD | |||
| 8.30-13:57 | The Borderers | Come Let Us Dance and Sing.* Rakes of Mallow Rose Tree Girl I Left Behind me | Accordion is leading, also fiddle, guitar and drums. | Set is announced as ‘Stone Golding Country Dance’, but that seems to refer to the dance itself, not the tune. * The first tune was found using folktunefinder.com. This identifies a tune by the opening pitch sequence. It’s independent of key, transposing to find a good fit. (JG) | MD JG |
| 14:00-18:11 | The Borderers | The Boys of Bluehill (Lads of North Tyne) Buttered Peas Asteley’s Ride La Russe (Reprise) | MD JG | ||
| 18:11-22:22 | The Borderers | Scotland the Brave Bonnie Lass o Fyvie John Spence of Uyeasound/Unid | MD | ||
| 22:25-26:35 | The Borderers | The Connaughtman’s Rambles The Jig of Slurs Unidentified | MD JG | ||
| 26:35-31:15 | Unid/Marching Through Georgia/I Wish I Was In Dixie/Battle Cry of Freedom/Old Folks At Home/Yankee Doodle | MD | |||
| 31:20-34:29 | My Love She’s But A Lassie Yet/William Tell [!]/Cock O’ The North | MD | |||
| 34:29-36:40 | The Borderers | Caddam Wood Cock O’ The North | Caddam Wood is attributed to Adam Rennie | MD JG | |
| 36:50-39:30 | Sir John Fenwick/Madame Bonaparte/unid | MD | |||
| 39:43-43:44 | Danish Masquerade/Unid/Can’t Put Yer Muck In Our Dustbin?/Muffin Man/Grandfather’s Clock/Danish Masquerade (reprise) | I can’t identify the second group of three strains, but I don’t think it’s ‘Can’t Put Your Muck in Our Dustbin’, which is generally sung to Ach, du Lieber Augustin. (JG) | MD JG | ||
| 43:44-47:24 | Light music recorded off radio | MD | |||
| 47:24-47:43 | Silence | MD |
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