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Box 1 (original media)

 Container

Restricted

Contains 38 Results:

Geese in the Bog, Fire on the Mountain --Tommy Sullivan, approximately 1944-1945

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Side B of the original phonograph disc was recorded over a radio broadcast of Fred Lorre, and bits of that recording can still be heard at intervals.

Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: approximately 1944-1945

Tommy Sullivan, Ma Sears; Dave Keough, and Danny Murphy, approximately 1944-1945

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes flings and a reel.

Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: approximately 1944-1945

Gypsy Hornpipe -- T. Sullivan; Irish Eyes -- El. Murphy, approximately 1944-1945

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Both sides contain recordings from radio. Side A is bettern known as the Harvest Home hornpipe. Side B is When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.

Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: approximately 1944-1945

Flax in Bloom, approximately 1944-1945

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Series: Recordings are primarily on home-recorded lacquer discs. Many date from Tommy Sullivan's first months home after his discharge from World War II in March 1945. Contents are primarily live accordion music, although there is some conversation. Also included are disks recorded for Sullivan by his family while he was in service, as well as later recordings of his accordion playing. The latest recordings are of Sullivan playing with Joe Derrane and a testimonial dinner for Sullivan with...
Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: approximately 1944-1945

Unlabeled (Tommy singing and talking about the recorder), approximately 1944-1945

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Series: Recordings are primarily on home-recorded lacquer discs. Many date from Tommy Sullivan's first months home after his discharge from World War II in March 1945. Contents are primarily live accordion music, although there is some conversation. Also included are disks recorded for Sullivan by his family while he was in service, as well as later recordings of his accordion playing. The latest recordings are of Sullivan playing with Joe Derrane and a testimonial dinner for Sullivan with...
Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: approximately 1944-1945

Hornpipe -- T. Sullivan, maybe 1945 April

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Series: Recordings are primarily on home-recorded lacquer discs. Many date from Tommy Sullivan's first months home after his discharge from World War II in March 1945. Contents are primarily live accordion music, although there is some conversation. Also included are disks recorded for Sullivan by his family while he was in service, as well as later recordings of his accordion playing. The latest recordings are of Sullivan playing with Joe Derrane and a testimonial dinner for Sullivan with...
Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: maybe 1945 April

Tommy Sullivan, first party home; Tommy and Dave, 1945 March 17

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Series: Recordings are primarily on home-recorded lacquer discs. Many date from Tommy Sullivan's first months home after his discharge from World War II in March 1945. Contents are primarily live accordion music, although there is some conversation. Also included are disks recorded for Sullivan by his family while he was in service, as well as later recordings of his accordion playing. The latest recordings are of Sullivan playing with Joe Derrane and a testimonial dinner for Sullivan with...
Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: 1945 March 17

Bonny Kate -- T. Sullivan and D. Keough, 1945 March 17

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Series: Recordings are primarily on home-recorded lacquer discs. Many date from Tommy Sullivan's first months home after his discharge from World War II in March 1945. Contents are primarily live accordion music, although there is some conversation. Also included are disks recorded for Sullivan by his family while he was in service, as well as later recordings of his accordion playing. The latest recordings are of Sullivan playing with Joe Derrane and a testimonial dinner for Sullivan with...
Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: 1945 March 17

Tommy first recording, 1945 March

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes Rose of Aranmore and Kelly from Killane.

Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: 1945 March

Chat with Lieutenant M. McGovern, Father John, and Tommy Sullivan, 1945 April 13

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Three phonograph discs of the same event. They include both conversation and accordion playing. The labels include:

Disc 36: Chat with Lieutenant M. McGovern and Father John; Tommy and Father John O.F.

Disc 37: Father John and Lieutenant M. McGovern; Father John's and Tommy's visit

Disc 38: Smith's Delight Hornpipe, Chat with Father John; no label

Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: 1945 April 13

Back home, 1945

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Series: Recordings are primarily on home-recorded lacquer discs. Many date from Tommy Sullivan's first months home after his discharge from World War II in March 1945. Contents are primarily live accordion music, although there is some conversation. Also included are disks recorded for Sullivan by his family while he was in service, as well as later recordings of his accordion playing. The latest recordings are of Sullivan playing with Joe Derrane and a testimonial dinner for Sullivan with...
Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: 1945

Quarrelsome, Visit, Tommy Back Home; T.P.S., 1945 Spring

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Series: Recordings are primarily on home-recorded lacquer discs. Many date from Tommy Sullivan's first months home after his discharge from World War II in March 1945. Contents are primarily live accordion music, although there is some conversation. Also included are disks recorded for Sullivan by his family while he was in service, as well as later recordings of his accordion playing. The latest recordings are of Sullivan playing with Joe Derrane and a testimonial dinner for Sullivan with...
Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: 1945 Spring

Reavey's Own Compositions, 1955

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Performed by Ed Reavey and Louis Quinn on fiddle and piano. Labels include: Disc 41, Side A: Reavey's own compositions in no.'s, No. 1 & No. 2, Reavey & L. Quinn, Worcester Mass, 1955, M.E.S. Disc 41, Side B: Reavey's own compositions, No. 3 No. 11 in numbers only, Played by Reavey and L. Quinn, M.E.S. Disc 42, Side A: No. 5, Reavey's own composition Disc 42, Side B: No. 6, Reavey's own composition Disc 43, Side A: Reavey's, No 11, R. & Q.,...
Access Note

These recordings have been digitally copied. Box 1 contains all original media, which may not be played due to format. Digital use copies, identified by digital content number, can be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Dates: 1955