Sold Date: June 6, 2015
Start Date: May 27, 2015
Final Price: £10.00 (GBP)
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HERE IS AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE (AND VERY VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND) COPY OF A VERY RARE RECORD OF GAELIC MUSIC AND SONG BY WITH THE TITLE "SONGS AND PIPES OF THE HEBRIDES"........ INCLUDES WAULKING SONGS, OSSIANCI CHANT, MOUTH MUSIC, LULLABY, WORK SONGS, BAGPIPES, LAMENT AND EMIGRANT'S SONG.

This a a very rare 1952 classic 12 track LP of traditional Gaelic songs from the Western Isles of Scotland. (NOW NEARLY 65 YEARS OLD)

The outer cover is in VERY GOOD + TO EXCELLENT CONDITION (CONSIDERERING ITS AGE) and the record is in VERY GOOD+ TO EXCELLENT CONDITION ALSO...(IT HAS A SCRATCH ON SIDE B WHICH CROSSES THE FIRST TWO TRACKS AND IS HARDLY NOTICABLE.   I HAVE CLEANED AND PLAYED THE RECORD AND APART FROM SOME SURFACE NOISE IT PLAYS EXTREMELY WELL.  A really lovely copy of this very orginal Gaelic album.

THIS RECORD WAS ISSUED ON THE ETHNIC FOLKWAYS LIBRARY RECORD LABEL (AMERICAN U.S.A.) WITH RECORD NUMBER FE 4430 IN MONO IN 1952 (NOW NEARLY 65 YEARS OLD AND OUT OF GENERAL AVAILABILITY.....THEREFORE A MUST FOR VYNIL LOVERS AND COLLECTORS OF WORLD MUSIC IN GAELIC..

THERE ARE 12 TRACKS (AND ALTHOUGH I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THE SENTIMENT COMES THROUGH).     

AND......IT COMES WITH ITS ORIGINAL INNER 4 PAGE SMALL LEAFLET WITH DETAILS OF THE SONGS, THE SINGERS OF THE SONGS, A FOREWARD BY HENRY COWELL AND AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES ON THE RECORDING BY POLLY HITCHCOCK. 

IT MAKES INTERESTING READING AND GIVES MORE INSIGHT INTO THE TRADITIONAL HEBRIDEAN MUSIC/SONGS AND WAY OF LIFE OF THE EARLY HEBRIDEAN LIFE.