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Record Id:6958091 (Australian Library Collections) permalink
Title:Folk songs in the Norm O'Connor folklore collection [sound recording].
Published:[between 1950 and 1969].
Description:1 tape reel (ca. 15 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track mono ; 7 in.
Playing Time:001500
Series:Norm O'Connor folklore collection
Summary:Folkloric recording.
Contents:Singing: 2. All fours, solo, 3. With a basket of onions, solo, 4. Buy my fine apples, solo 5. Chains to mend, solo, 6. Take it Bob, solo, 7. Tip it into my can ; Rhyme: 8. Ickle Ockle black bockle, children's counting out rhyme ; Singing: 9. Ugly Nora Grady, duet, 10. Oh rool Irish whiskey, duet, 11. repeat, 12. I can't make it out, can you? solo, 13. Where is the rover, duet, Still, still I love him, solo, 14. Pretty Jessie, solo, fragment ; Poem: 15. There was a man in Arkinsaw, solo ; Singing: 16. A-ridin in a railroad keer, solo, 17. Slim Jim, The red was on your lips Mary, duet, incomplete, 18. Waste not want not, duet, 19. The low-back car, duet, 20. The low back car, duet, with additional verse.
Notes:A collection of recordings and related material collected during the 1950s and 1960s by Norm O'Connor, Pat O'Connor and others for the Folk Lore Society of Victoria.
Recording begins 2 minutes into reel, side 2.
Singing, chant and poem, unidentified females.
Transcript unavailable.
Part of:Norm O'Connor folklore collection (AuCNL)594624
Subjects:Counting-out rhymes -- Australia.
Folk songs, English -- Australia.
Other Authors:O'Connor, Norman.
Folk Lore Society of Victoria.
Access Conditions:Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
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Libraries that have this item:National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (247138) ORAL TRC 2539/20

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