I have made it for the use of people who have offered to help identify English, Scottish and Irish singers and musicians, locations and dates of recordings, so that Archivist Greg Johnson at Ole Miss University can correct and share the 'metadata'.
Then there can be a proper public launch of the Archive.
The quality of data varies so greatly. Sometimes there is only a title for the tape reel. Sometimes a date of recording is included, and/or a location.
Sometimes there is a proper listing of performer and titles, BUT these seem to have been done by Ole Miss students, striving to understand Goldstein's bad handwriting, on occasions failing and entering 'undecipherable'. Now and then the listing is not correct - a reel is in the wrong box?
Goldstein copied most of his 1959/60 recordings in Buchan to Tobar An Dualchais, and I have been able to rectify those listings, but I keep finding reels that KG did not copy to TAD, plus tracks recorded by him and copied to TAD that I have not [yet] found in the Ole Miss Archive.
I am working on the Scottish material, and there is strong interest in and commitment to action from ITMA for the Irish material. I have interest expressed in the English material.
WHAT IS IN THE ENGLISH MATERIAL
Recordings at English folk festivals and in folk clubs in I think about 1971.
Recordings made in the USA, mostly in Philadelphia either public performances for the Philadelphia Festival or more measured presentations for the Philadelphia Folksong Society, of visiting professional performers e.g. The Young Tradition, Dave & Toni Arthur, and US resident Louis Killen.
Copies from commercial LPs, national archives, and I think radio programmes.
Edited sequences for use by KG when lecturing. Etc.
HOW I AM BUILDING UP [CORRECTED] LISTINGS
I have made the below format for each reel I listen to.
BLANK FORM
WEB ADDRESS REEL NAME REEL NUMBER
LISTING DATE REEL DATE LOCATION
REEL CONTENTS COMMENTS REPORTER
EXAMPLE WITH NOTES
WEB ADDRESS [Found at very top of reel page, e.g. u/kgreels_uk/200/
REEL NAME [Malvern I / Various Artists / "Malvern I" by Various Artists (olemiss.edu) [highlighted and copied over]
REEL NUMBER Identifier / _reel_415_01
LISTING DATE None given
REEL DATE None given
LOCATION None Given
REEL CONTENTS [ Hares on the Mountain/Roll Your Leg Over; Oggie Man; Darby Ram; Rocky Road to Dublin; Rosin the Bow; Kelly the Boy from Killane; The Mermaid; The Rising of the Moon] [copied over - titles accurate?]
COMMENTS
Place - Malvern / Festival recording
REPORTER
Ewan McVicar
At the bottom of the page of the below long link are these option links.
Browse the Audio Recordings: Reels Collections:
Reels: Canada
Reels: United Kingdom and Ireland
Reels: United States
Reels: Unknown Locations
{Some of the 'unknown locations' recordings are in obvious locations, some are not!]
