FTX 162 - LAST NIGHT BEING WINDY - More Lilts and Love Songs from Elizabeth CRONIN

Bess CRONIN (1879-1956), the famous singer from Macroom, Co Cork, possessing the most intimate and graceful of singing styles, here provides another 25 of her lyrical and pastoral songs mingling with some racey dance ditties recorded in the late 1940s and early 1950s by Brian George, Seamus Ennis Alan Lomax and Robin Roberts. There is now a handsome book about her edited by her grandson giving the words of the songs, together with two CDs which also contain some of the songs she sang in Gaelic.

1. LAST NIGHT BEING WINDY (Died for Love) - 1'26"

2. THE BUACHAL ROE - 2'34"

3. THE BANKS OF SULLANE - 2'59"

4. EILEEN, THE FLOWER OF KILKENNY - 2'05"

5. A CUSHLAMACHREE - 2'21"

6. THE GREEN LINNET - 4'14"

7. FAIR MAID, WON'T YOU CALL ME YOUR DARLING - 3'04"

8. THE PRAYER BOOK - 2'31"

9. THE GROVES OF TULLIG - 4'14"

10. DOWN TO THE FIELDS - 0'34"

11. THE PROMISE - 3'50"

12. THE BONNET TRIMMED WITH BLUE - 0'41"

13. THE BONNY BLUE-EYED LASSIE - 2'34"

14. JACK DONOHUE, THE AUSTRALIAN HIGHWAYMAN - 2’34”

15. THE MINER’S DREAM OF HOME - 3’16”

16. I AM A MAID THAT’S DEEP IN LOVE - 4’11”

17. BIDDY OF KILLYDYSART - 2’05”

18. THE SINGLE SAILOR - 2’44”

19. THE CHARMING SWEET GIRL THAT I LOVE - 3’46”

20. THE DERBY RAM - 2’10”

21. MOLLY BAWN - 2’12”

22. DID YOU SEE MY MAN? - 0’35”

23. BARBARA ALLEN - 2’13”

24. THE LITTLE PACK OF TAILORS - 0’40”

25. WELL SOLD THE COW (The Yorkshire Bite) - 4’32”

Recorded by Brian George, Seamus Ennis, Alan Lomax & Robin Roberts 1947-52. Edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax Cassettes 1978.