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| Tape | NPS-JFC-E-022-01 | Length m | 43.30 | Date rec’d | 1968 or later | Quality | Quality generally quite good but music comes across better than voice |
| Title | PS Concert | Contents | Recording of live concert. | ||||
| Notes | MC is Bill Charlton (voice ident plus called Mr Charlton by Ray Fisher). National anthem indicates this was the end of the concert. Announcer indicates that language lessons at end are part of Radio 3’s Study Session, which ran from October 1967 to September 1969. At one point he gives future date of “Tuesday 16 January”, which indicates the recording (part recorded over by previous track) was made in January 1968 and the concert is therefore potentially the one held later that year and certainly no earlier. MD | ||||||
| Help | Confirmation of event/date (which may affect BBC’s copyright) Identification/confirmation of performers Identification of tunes | ||||||
| Start-End | Performer | Tunes/Titles | Instruments | Notes | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-5.00 | Poss John Doonan (instrument plus playing for Irish dancers) plus dancers [In progress at start of tape] | Saddle The Pony/unid/Irish Washerwoman/Saddle The Pony | Piccolo for dancers | MD | |
| 5.00-13.44 | Unnamed folk group – three or possibly more singers/instrumentalists, probably all male | Drunken Bella Roy; Peat Bog Soldiers; El Paso del Ebro (aka Ay Carmela) (all named) | Group singing with instrumental accompaniment: at various times concertina, guitar, piano accordion, ?balalaika or similar | MD | |
| 13.44-22.12 | Newcastle University Morris team (announced) | Tenpenny Bit/Blackthorn Stick/Saddle the Pony/several unid jigs | Dancers and caller with solo fiddle accompaniment | MD | |
| 22.12-33.0 | Ray Fisher (voice ident) | Married Next Monday Morning; inaudibly titled song by Ian Miles about a bridge in Scotland; Coulter’s Candy (all named | Solo female voice with guitar accompaniment | MD | |
| 33’15-38.50 | Tommy Breckons (Announced) | Crookit Bawbee The Wonder (MD) Sir Sydney Smith’s March Nae Good Luck with variations (not the Clough variations) | NSP | Announcement at 33’0 that Diana Blackett-Ord wasn’t available but Tommy Breckons was there instead. | JG MD |
| 38.50-43.30 | Unnamed band (probably includes folk group above for finale) | Finale: Cock of The North/Atholl Highlanders/National Anthem/Cock of The North/Atholl Highlanders | Fiddles, piano accordion, guitar and probably more | MD | |
| 44.06-57.31 | Spanish language Course | “Starting Spanish” | JG | ||
| 1.25:28-1.30:47 | Chinese lesson | MD | |||
| 1.30.47-end | Blank tape | MD | |||
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