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NEFA
1994.001.01
P: Jane Turriff
T: Announcement
NEFA
1994.001.02
P: Jane Turriff
T: Home, Home on the Range/ Red River Valley/ You'll
Never Miss Your Mother When She's Gone
S: Accordion
instrumental.
NEFA
1994.001.03
P: Jane Turriff
T: Wild Mountain Thyme/ Tramps an Hawkers/ When You
and I Were Young, Maggie/ The Girl I Left Behind Me
S: Accordion
instrumental. Stops part way.
NEFA
1994.001.04
P: Jane Turriff
T: The Girl I Left Behind Me/ Mcpherson's Rant
S: Accordion
instrumental.
NEFA
1994.001.05
P: Jane Turriff
T: Loch Lomond
S: Accordion
instrumental.
NEFA
1994.001.06
P: Jane
Turriff
T: Loch Lomond/ Bonnie Charlie's Noo Awa
FL:
S: Accordion
instrumental, with different reeds from previous track.
NEFA
1994.001.07 Transcription
P: Jane
Turriff
T: Singing in the family
S: Jane
got those tunes from her mother and father. They used to sing those
songs. They had a gramophone when they were young, but mostly people
sang, and her father played the pipes. JT's mother was always singing
old fashioned songs. Being disabled, Jane never went out a lot,
so when her mother was home cleaning, she would sing the old song.
Her grandfather used to sing around the place as well. Jane had
time to sit and listen to the songs because she was home with mother.
She did not need to learn them, she just absorbed them.
NEFA
1994.001.08 Transcription
P: Jane
Turriff
T: Singing all her life
S: She
used to play the organ in the house after helping her mother with
housework. Jane never stopped singing and singing is a good life,
so she was happy. She worked hard around the house and got her bed
and food, and maybe a Jimmie Rodgers record. Singin is her life.
She likes people who are interested in singing and the old songs.
She could teach TM to sing. She taught Clive Powell and he has won
several festivals. She sings 'The Dowie Dens' and 'My Wee Doggie'.
NEFA
1994.001.09 Transcription
P: Jane
Turriff
T: The mood for singing
S: You
have to be in the mood for singing; your heart has to be in it.
Sometimes she is not in the mood and it does not come out right.
NEFA
1994.001.10 Transcription
P: Jane
Turriff
T: Making songs
S: Jane
has made three songs, one about her son, one about the old days,
the hills and dales. She has never done anything with them.
NEFA
1994.001.11 Transcription
P: Jane
Turriff
T: I've Jist Come Hame tae See Ma Friends
S: Recites
one of her songs. There are more verses to it. Jane often used to
make up verses, but not so much now. She used to wake up with a
verse in her head and have to get up and write it down.
NEFA
1994.001.12 Transcription
P: Jane
Turriff
T: Writing songs down
S: She
has songs written down on the backs of Christmas cards and every
other bit of paper around the house. Sometimes songs come into her
head that she has not thought of for years, then she writes it down.
[laughs] Often she will sit down at the piano and look through the
songs. Her father used to like her singing.
NEFA
1994.001.13 Transcription
P: Jane
Turriff
T: Hillbilly songs
S: They
used to like the hillbilly songs, though she was surrounded by the
old songs as well. Jimmie Rodgers and Gracie Fields were her favourites.
Sometimes her father would ask for 'Blue, Blue', or 'Little Golden
Locket' from Jane.
NEFA
1994.001.14 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Little Golden Locket
FL: I've a little golden locket
S: Sings a verse. That was a Jimmie Rodgers song, on which
he yodelled.
NEFA
1994.001.15 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Cowboy songs
S: She
liked the cowboy songs first and got interested in the old songs
when she was fifteen or sixteen. She and her mother had pianos.
They would sing together, very happy. Her mother was eighty six
when she died, a good while ago. She still has a tape of her mother
and herself, but not her father piping or fiddling. Jane was disabled,
but worked for her mother and taught herself to play.
Mentions Davie Stewart. [End of side A.]
NEFA
1994.001.16 Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Taught herself to play
S: She
taught herself to play the accordion, piano and harmonium.
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