The Banff and Buchan Collection

Jane Turriff, Mintlaw, 21/05/1995. Pete Shepheard in attendance.

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NEFA 1995.009.01   Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
It's Now or Never
FL:
It's now or never, my love won't wait
S:
[starts midway] A verse of the song with electric organ and vocalisations between.

NEFA 1995.009.02   Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Testing her voice
S:
Jane tries everything to get the voice going. Her mother used to like Jane to play the piano. Shepheard asks for next song. Jane would play in her mother's house. She used to sing very high, but her mother could not keep up. She cannot get as high now. She used to sing along with Gracie Fields. She used to yodel.

NEFA 1995.009.03   Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-bob-bobbin Along
FL:
When the red, red robin comes bob-bob-bobbin along
S:
Just one line.

NEFA 1995.009.04-05    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
My Wee Doggie
FL:
It's my wee doggie learnt me a trick
S:
Tries several verses of on the organ. It is really her grandmother's song.
Tries to find a key.

NEFA 1995.009.06    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
The Gallowa Hills
S:
Tries several verses of a song then plays 6/8 march with Shepheard on melodion. Jane diddles along with the instruments.

NEFA 1995.009.07    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
It's a Long Way to Tipperary/ Pack up your Troubles
S:
Several verses. She likes the melodeon, something she can sing to.

NEFA 1995.009.08    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Far the Gadie Rins
FL:
I wish I were far the Gadie runs
S:
Jane sings the chorus and diddles the verses to the accompaniment of electric organ and Shepheard on melodion. Sings another verse.

NEFA 1995.009.09    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
When You and I Were Young Maggie/ Tom Dooley/ It's a Long Way to Tipperary/ Pack Up Your Troubles
S:
Jane sings the choruses and diddles the verses to the accompaniment of electric organ and Shepheard on melodion. The accordion goes well with those tunes.

NEFA 1995.009.10    Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T:
Uncle Davie
S:
Uncle Davie, and several others in Jane's family, played the melodion. She plays the accordion, but prefers to sing with the organ.

NEFA 1995.009.11    Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T: Waltz
S:
Electric organ. In the olden days people would have diddled rather than an organ. Jane enjoys diddling. Few people sing the old songs these days.

NEFA 1995.009.12    Transcription
P:
Jane Turriff
T:
Robin the Bold (Rosin the Beau)
S:
Jane vocalises the song. Track starts with trying to find a key. Jane's sister has an organ now and has just started to play. [End of side A.]

NEFA 1995.009.13    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Hearing the old songs
S:
Jane heard the old songs when she was young. She remembers the tunes, but not the words so much. TM's parents used to sing. Jane's father used to play 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', which she diddles here, on the fiddle. Then JT and Shepheard play the tune on electric organ and melodion [ca. 1:50]. Jane's sister has started to play 'Robin the Bold', the only other member of her family to take up music. She often thinks about her young days when they all used to go to dances and the like. She and her sister often reminisce about those days. Music helped Jane cope with her disability. Her father used to say she was different from the other children. Paul Heyman and Clive Powell love to come and hear her sing. She used to make people march up and down to pipe tunes. Before her accident, four years old, her mother would diddle to her dancing. Singing has helped her get through life. She was never taught to play; she has taught herself. Jane cannot read music.

NEFA 1995.009.14    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T: Lang Johnny More
FL:
Johnny wis an angry man, and an angry man wis he
S:
Electric organ, with several key changes and occasional diddling. Stops play ca. 2:00 and sings four verses. Her mother used to sing the whole song. TM reminds her of one. The old songs like this were probably from her grandmother, who was Irish.

NEFA 1995.009.15    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Far the Gadie Rins/ You'll Never Miss Your Mama Till She's Gone/ Tom Dooley
S:
[JT turns her back to mike and slightly overmodulates orig. at start.] Diddles the first tune and sings a verse or two of the second, before singing several choruses of the last.

NEFA 1995.009.16    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Home, Home on the Range
FL:
Build me a home, where the buffalo roam
S:
[Orig. level lowers ca. 0:30.] Several choruses of the song with electric organ.

NEFA 1995.009.17    Transcription
P: Jane Turriff
T:
Let Me Sleep in Your Barn
FL:
Let me sleep in your barn, kind mister
S:
To the tune of Red River Valley. Two verses and choruses of song. I could entertain you.

 

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