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NEFA
1993.003.01
P: Jane Turriff
T: Family music making and teaching herself to play
S: Both
father and mother sang and her father was more of a piper. Taught
himself the fiddle, piano and pipes. Their parents are all musical.
Mother's sisters and brothers could play pipes and some the accordion
and fiddle. She taught herself to play the organ and learned to
sing with it. She would just fancy a tune and a song and try to
master it and she did. It has been her life. Mother Irish, Jane
McGuire. Very musical people. Married Robert Stewart, a soldier-piper.
Gave picture of him to her sister Lizzie. Wanted to write a book
about him and use the photo. She has got photos of her uncles in
the Boer War. Would love to write book and would need a bit of help.
She is a clever woman.
NEFA
1993.003.02
P: Jane Turriff
T: The long ballads and where she learned them
S: The
long ballads came from her mother and granny; she would listen.
She never used to sing them, but they were all inside her. She would
sit and think about the sad songs. She fell and hurt her leg when
she was four and she spent more than three years in hospital. She
wanted the house to herself so she could sing freely.
NEFA
1993.003.03
P: Jane Turriff
T: Previous recordings
S: MB
mentions the TV program about her. She has never seen it. There
is a copy at the School of Scottish Studies. Her mother, Christina
Stewart, was recorded at the same time she was by the School of
Scottish Studies.
NEFA
1993.003.04
P: Jane Turriff
T: Mother Christina Stewart
S: Her
mother was very hard working. Singing was her life. There were no
festivals in those days; she just sang all the time around the house.
She was always scrubbing the floor and carrying water from the well.
No water in houses. The other kids would be out playing, and she
would be listening to her mum singing. She learned the Dowie Dens
o Yarrow from her. She would hear her grandmother and grandfather
too. She were as happy as a lark, they were happy. She wants the
house to be empty so she can really sing out.
NEFA
1993.003.05
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Dowie Dens o Yarrow
FL: He's gan tae his lady gaen
S: 12 verses. Heard it all her life. Did not have to learn
words. Just heard them.
NEFA
1993.003.06
P: Jane Turriff
T: I'm Jist a Braw Young Sailor Lad
FL: I'm jist a braw young sailor lad
S: Six verses. Stanley Robertson's favourite song.
NEFA
1993.003.07
P: Jane Turriff
T: Blue, Blue
FL: Blue, blue, I'm feelin so blue
S: Jimmie Rogers song, complete with yodelling.
NEFA
1993.003.08
P: Jane Turriff
T: Home, Home on the Range
FL: Home, home on the range
S: Five verses with melodic variation.
NEFA
1993.003.09
P: Jane
Turriff
T: The old songs versus Jimmy Rogers and the like
S: Just
used to hear it and liked that sort better than the old songs. Still
does. She likes the stories of the old songs; they are true, you
know. The old songs are very sad. She loves Jimmy Rogers, his voice
and guitar.
NEFA
1993.003.10
P: Jane
Turriff
T: The old gramophone
S: She
would play the disks on the Gramophone. One time she broke it and
her father came home in the evening and said 'that woman' broke
it, 'that big woman' and she was only a bairn. They would get stylii
in a little packet. It was an RCA Victor gramophone with a big red
horn.
NEFA
1993.003.11
P: Jane Turriff
T: Bonnie Udny
FL: O Udny, bonnie Udny, ye shine where ye stan
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