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Jane Turriff, Mintlaw, 06/05/1994. Clive Powell is there.

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NEFA 1994.042.01   Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Why Should I Be So Lonely
FL:
Why should I be so lonely
S:
Electric organ.

NEFA 1994.042.02   Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
The Violets Are Blue
FL:
The violets are blue

NEFA 1994.042.03   Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
I Wanna Go Home
FL:
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
S:

NEFA 1994.042.04    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
When You Were Sweet Sixteen
FL:
When first I saw the lovelight in your eyes

NEFA 1994.042.05    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Talk about Dowie Dens o Yarrow
S:
Clive Powell asks if JT will sing The Dowie Dens o Yarrow.

NEFA 1994.042.06    Transcription
P: Clive Powell
T:
The Dowie Dens o Yarrow
FL:
He's gan tae his lady dear
S:
Clive Powell sings The Dowie Dens o Yarrow.

NEFA 1994.042.07    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
The Dowie Dens o Yarrow
FL:
He's gan tae his lady dear, as he has done before-o
S:

NEFA 1994.042.08    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Hearing the old songs
S:
You never hear those old songs anymore. She won the cup at Kinross with that song. Singing is her life, her mother as well. JT's father was musical too. Her mother's youngest brother was Davie Stewart. There were great pipers too, her uncles and great uncles were all pipers. Donald Stewart the piper. [loud clocks in background] JT's mother played the pipes too. She would play the pipes when the bairns were fussing. The pipes would hang on the wall. Sometimes she would play the chanter. JT appreciates people who appreciate singing. Singing is a happy thing to have in your life. Some people have no time for it. JT sings in the house, sometimes remembering songs that she has not thought of for years. She has no time for people who do not like singing.

NEFA 1994.042.09    Transcription
P: Clive Powell
T:
Ah'd Rather Loss a' the Kye
FL:
Ah'd rather loss a' the kye than loss ma hinnie
S:
Clive Powell sings a Northumberland song. That is a pipe melody.

NEFA 1994.042.10    Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T:
Clive Powell on JT
S: CP heard JT sing, on a tape from Hamish Henderson. CP came to see JT years ago, and she encouraged him to sing in public. JT taught CP to march too; diddles pipe tune. CP gets his mandolin. [End of Side A.]

NEFA 1994.042.11    Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T:
Pipe tune and diddling
S:
JT plays a pipe tune on the electric organ, diddling at the same time (CP beating time in background).

NEFA 1994.042.12    Transcription
P: Clive Powell
T:
Reel/ The Wind that Shakes the Barley
S: CP plays reels on the mandolin.

NEFA 1994.042.13    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
What's Your Name Ma Bonnie Wee Lass
S:
JT plays the spoons too. Sometimes she diddles or sings a bothy song to the spoons (like hoof beats). Sings with spoons.

NEFA 1994.042.14    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
The Boys of Blue Hill/ Reel ??
S: CP plays on mandolin, JT joins on spoons, TM on bodhran.

NEFA 1994.042.15    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
The Rakes of Kildare
S:
CP plays mandolin, JT joins on spoons and diddling, TM on bodhran. JT taught her granddaughter to play the spoons.

NEFA 1994.042.16    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Nicky Tams
S: JT diddles and plays the spoons. JT and TM sing.

NEFA 1994.042.17    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
The Hash o Bennagoak diddling
S:
JT plays spoons and sings. That was Cameron's song. JT learned his songs, but she is not sure he learned hers. She used to join in with him at festivals.

NEFA 1994.042.18    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
The Hash o Bennagoak diddling
S:
You have to hold the spoons correctly. JT plays spoons and talks to the horses. (The spoons imitate the horse's hooves.) Diddles, then sings part of it with comments to the horses and the men interlaced. [Laughs]

NEFA 1994.042.19    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
The Bonnie Hoose o Airlie diddling
S:
CP asks about JT diddling/humming'. She says she does not know the words, diddles the tune, with spoons. [End of side B.]

 

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