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- [1948] (Creation)
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2 scores (2 p. each) : blueprint, copy
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File consists of Leslie Bell's arrangement of the Newfoundland folk song "I'se the B'y". Bell acquired the folk song (among others) from musician Robert (Bob) Macleod on a trip to Newfoundland in 1947 with Howard Cable.
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- English
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For a recording by the Leslie Bell Singers, see the recording of their concert at the Maple Leaf Gardens (OTUFM 39-E-B108). This song is also included on their RCA Victor set Musc in my Heart (OTUFM 39-E-B146).
For more on Leslie Bell and Howard Cable's trip to Newfoundland, see: Anna Kearney Guigné, "Kenneth Peacock’s Contribution to Gerald S. Doyle’s Old-Time Songs of Newfoundland (1955)," Newfoundland Studies 22, no. 1 (Spring 2007).
Publication note
Included in The Festival Song Book, Book 4 by Leslie Bell (Canadian Music Sales Corporation Limited, 1957).
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Performed in a concert by the Leslie Bell Singers on February 27, 1948 according to advertisement in The Globe and Mail (February 27, 1948).