Archive Location: | - DCS 74-D -- 1021a-ITMA-REEL/CDR
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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]
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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
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Track A: | - 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
- 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
- The town of Anterim (‘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
- 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]
- The ‘Saldanha’ (‘Come all you gallant seamen bold and listen to my song...’), song / Alex Foster, singing in English
- 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
- [=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]
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Physical Description: | - 1 sound tape reel : analog
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Documentation: | - Indexes provided by Hugh Shields, see related ephemera
- Carton: `MASTER Songs / and / Ballads UFM 19'
- Spool: `UFM Master 19'
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