• Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 21 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Sound Recording

CID:

• 55069

ITMA Reference:

• 1021-ITMA-REEL

Material Type:

• Reel-to-reel tape

Archive Location:

• DCS 74-D -- 1021a-ITMA-REEL/CDR

Creation Location:

• Recorded on 13 October 1968 in his house in Belfast from Alex Foster (aged 87), who learned most of his songs around 1900 in the Birdstown Glen, Inishowen, Co. Donegal [tracks A1–7]

Creation Date:

• 13 October, 1968

Catalogue Number:

• HS 6819
• 1021a-ITMA-REEL/CDR on-site copy: 3120 222 3996
• 1021a-ITMA-REEL/CDR off-site copy: 3074 2127 1968
• 1021a-ITMA-REEL/CDR user copy: SA426B 0344880
• 1021a-ITMA-REEL/CDR donor copy: SA426B 0344780

People:

• Foster, Alec

Creator:

• Foster, Alex (aged 87)

Contributors:

• Shields, Hugh

Contents:

• Down the moor, the, song
• I had a wee duck, song
• Town of Anterim, the, song
• A nobleman's fair daughter, song
• Saldanha, the, song
• Roll me from the wall, song
• Keach in the Creel, The, song

Track A:

1. Down the moor (‘As I roved out one morn in May, it being fine summer weather...’), song [learnt from his father] / Alex Foster, singing in English
2. I had a wee duck (‘I had a wee duck when I lived in Drummuck...’), song [learnt from his father, sung with MS aid] / Alex Foster, singing in English
3. The town of Antrim (‘It was in the town of Anterim near to the river Bann...’), song [learnt from Artie Gilmour, actor and singer in Belfast around 1918] / Alex Foster, singing in English
4. A nobleman’s fair daughter (‘A nobleman’s fair daughter come walking down yon lane...’), song [learnt from his uncle Andrew Foster in Birdstown, Inishowen] / Alex Foster, singing in English [END OF BAND ONE]
5. The ‘Saldanha’ (‘Come all you gallant seamen bold and listen to my song...’), song / Alex Foster, singing in English
6. Roll me from the wall (‘When I was young and in my prime...’), song [from Fanad, sung with MS aid] / Alex Foster, singing in English
7. [=The keach in the creel] (‘How can I get to your chamber love? ...’), song [learnt from Dan Harkin, born c. 1890] / Alex Foster, singing in English [END OF BAND TWO]
   

Physical Description:

• 1 sound tape reel : analog

Documentation:

• Indexes provided by Hugh Shields, see related ephemera
• Carton: `MASTER Songs / and / Ballads UFM 19'
• Spool: `UFM Master 19'

Commercial Y/N:

• Non-commercial Sound Recordings

Subjects:

• Ireland: Singing in English

Language:

• English
• Irish

Temporal:

• 1960s

Geographical Location:

• Inishowen
• Derry

Collection Title:

• Hugh Shields Collection