Interview with Dr. James Ritchie about The Wind Blows High

Title: Interview with Dr. James Ritchie about The Wind Blows High
Date recorded: July 12, 1951
Contributor(s): Performer: Ritchie, Dr. James; Performer: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Genre: interview/commentary
Instruments: voice
Culture: Lowland Scotland, Scottish

Subject(s): The Singing Street (film)

Note: Dr. Ritchie explains the game "The Wind Blows High." Lomax asks him how he became involved in the making of "The Singing Street" and singing games in general, but the tape cuts out.
Setting: Norton Park School

Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Archive ID: T3399R13

Original format: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T3399
Track: 13

Part of: Edinburgh II 7/51

About the session: Game songs performed by children at the Norton Park School in Edinburgh, and interviews with Dr. James T.R. Ritchie (teacher and game song expert) and Margaret Hunter "Peggie" MacGillivray, a student at Norton Park. Ewan McVicar writes of MacGillivray, now (as of 2005) Margaret Currie: "A wonderful informant and performer, she is melodic and confident in her performance and articulate and clear in her accounts of how the songs were used."

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