Eileen McCoy interviewed by John Meredith with Rob Willis in John Meredith folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1438303
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McCoy, Eileen, 1917-2011, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1993 Jun. 1
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 90 min.)
- Series:
- John Meredith folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Eileen McCoy and husband Athol McCoy, folk musicians, play the fiddle and guitar.
- Full contents:
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- Conversation: 1. Bio. data
- Music: 2. The Spanish (waltz; fiddle & guitar)
- 3. On board (waltz)
- 4. Take your boots off, Tom, and go to bed (varsovianna; learnt from Eileen's father)
- 5. Polka mazurka
- 6. Country waltz and bluebonnet (waltz)
- 7. The midnight (waltz)
- 8. The Mudgee (waltz; learnt from Alan Walsh with variations)
- 9. The Irish washerwoman (jig)
- 10. Unidentified title (set tune)
- 11. Spanish waltz (?) (learnt from Jack Cameron)
- 12. Shepherd's dance plus The Floral dance (repeated)
- 13. Joe the rambling porter (also called "The Quaker's wife")
- 14. Polly go milk the cow
- 15. Ladies get down and get hold of the gentlemens' doodle de doodle de doodle de doo (set tune)
- 16. Grand old maid Britannia (tune for the Grand Chain dance)
- 17. The Cackling hen
- 18. Polly Wolly Doodle
- 19. The brown jug (polka)
- 20. My young man went to France
- 21. Crooked stove pipe
- 22. The barren rocks (bagpipes imitation)
- 23. Little burnt potato (solo fiddle)
- 24. St. Anne's reel
- 25. Ron Craig's jig
- 26. Unidentified jig (Kesh jig or Clare jig?)
- 27. The broken chai
- 28. Honest John (jig; learnt from Peter Mollison)
- 29. Jill Ireland's tune (jig)
- 30. Bonnie Prince Charles (with a false start)
- 31. Father O'Flynn
- 32. Cock o' the North
- 33. Vena's tune
- 34. Schottische (aborted)
- 35. Charlie, Charlie, tickle me
- 36. Not tonight Charlie (waltz)
- 37. Maple sugar sweetheart (guitar)
- 38. When the cactus is in bloom
- 39. Rocky Ned
- 40. Good old droving days.
- Notes:
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- Athol McCoy was present during the interview.
- Recorded on June 1, 1993 at Bega, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2063 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1993
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