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Cecilia Costello

Cecilia Costello (Leader LEE 4054)

Cecilia Costello
Recording from the Sound Archives of the BBC
Cecilia Costello (1884-1976)

Leader LEE 4054 (LP, UK, 1975)

In 1950, the BBC began to record systematically the traditional music of the British Isles for their sound archives. One of the many gifted singers they tracked down in that period was Mrs. Cecilia Costello. In the course of two visits, in 1951 and 1954, Marie Slocombe, then head of the BBC Recorded Programmes Library, recorded 13 songs from her, and an LP was compiled from those recordings, together with extracts from interviews with Mrs Costello recorded by Charles Parker in 1967, and issued on the Leader label in 1975.

Recorded on November 30, 1951 in Birmingham by Maria Slocombe and Patrick Shuldham-Shaw for the BBC
except tracks [1, 7] recorded on January 16, 1954 in Birmingham by Maria Slocombe for the BBC;
Disc transfers by Willie Bonwick for the BBC;
Notes by Roy Palmer;
Cover photography by Bob Etheridge;
Album designed by Janet Kerr

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. The Cruel Mother (Roud 9; Child 20)
  2. I Wish, I Wish (Roud 495)
  3. There Was a Squire in Edinboro' Lived (Roud 93; Child 221)
  4. The Wexford Murder (Roud 263; Laws P35)
  5. The Handsome Cabin Boy (Roud 239; Laws N13)
  6. My Johnny (Roud 1422)
  1. The Frog and the Mouse (Roud 16)
  2. Betsy of Ballantown Brae (Roud 1423)
  3. The Jew's Garden (Roud 73; Child 155)
  4. I Am a Maid That's Deep in Love (Roud 231; Laws N12)
  5. Wedding Song (Roud 381)
  6. Shule Agra (Roud 911)
  7. The Lover's Ghost (Roud 179; Child 248)

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Other records with Cecilia Costello

Various Artists, The Child Ballads 2 (The Folk Songs of Britain Vol. 5), LP, Topic 12T161, 1968