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Recordings from the Sound Archives of the BBC
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Cecilia Costello 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 30 November 1951 in Birmingham by Maria Slocombe and Patrick Shuldham-Shaw for the BBC
except tracks [1, 7]
recorded on 16 January 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
Musicians
Cecilia Costello: vocals
Tracks
Side 1 | Side 2 |
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> Folk Music > Records > Cecilia Costello: Old Fashioned Songs
Old Fashioned Songs
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Old Fashioned Songs Musical Traditions Records MTCD363/4 (2 CD, UK, January 2014) |
Booklet Notes by Rod Stradling
Musicians
Cecilia Costello: vocals
Tracks
CD 1 | CD 2 |
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Tracks 1-2 to 1-7, 1-9 to 1-15, 1-26 recorded on 30 November 1951 in Birmingham by Maria Slocombe and Patrick Shuldham-Shaw for the BBC; |
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> Folk Music > Records > Cecilia Costello
Other records with Cecilia Costello
Various Artists,
The Child Ballads 2
(The Folk Songs of Britain Vol. 5),
LP, Caedmon TC1146, 1961; Topic 12T161, 1968;
CD, Rounder 1776, 2000
Various Artists,
Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain,
2 CD, Harbourtown HARDCD055, 2013
Various Artists,
Wait Till the Clouds Roll By,
3 CD, Musical Traditions MTCD518-0, 2020