To Guest Lin,
Oh Lin - that is superb – you having all Anne’s albums, bar one. Unfortunately I don’t have an exact date when I first heard her, but I know it was during the early days of Irish television which was established on New Year’s Eve 1961 but didn’t reach the rest of the country (where I live) until January 1963. I have a recollection of seeing herself and Jesse Owens sometime in October 1964 in a TV programme called ‘Ballad Session’. Unfortunately our Television service at that time and for many years afterwards did not keep recordings of those programmes, so what we now see on You Tube are the few programmes that they did preserve. And of course we should be very grateful that they did preserve those programmes.
Two of the last times I heard her performing live were again on television in 1971 and 1974. As you know she linked up with her husband Paddy Roche sometime in mid 1966 and both of them performed on the ‘Late Late Show’ (the Irish version of the ‘Johnny Carson Show’). Those two broadcasts took place live on 1st May 1971 and the 2nd February 1974. And again, as far as I know, both those programmes were never preserved.
So congratulations again Lin on your superb collection.