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Thread #72866   Message #1260376
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
31-Aug-04 - 12:13 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Kitty I Am in Love with You (from Moeran)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kitty I am in love with you.
That site requires registration to hear the sound sample; I won't touch such things any more. However, the Murray recording can be heard elsewhere without strings: for instance, at http://www.fnac.com/. It's sung extraordinarily fast.

Jim's reference was helpful, and provided a clue to substantive information. This was one of the songs included in Moeran's Songs from County Kerry (Opus R 97g, London: Augener, 1950). These were songs he had collected between (roughly) 1934 and 1938, "in Cahirciveen, Sneem and Kenmar".

E J ("Jack") Moeran did a fair bit of collecting in his time, mainly in Norfolk (largely around Sutton, where he met Harry Cox among others) and, later, in Ireland.

From the sound of it, Shegui recorded an arrangement of the set noted by Moeran. The tune is exactly as I remember it.

http://www.moeran.com/