Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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The Dalvait Sisters
Conductor: Jean Graham - Accompanist: Patricia McDermott

A great find at a charity shop at the Western side of Glasgow. Few items I could trace online:
Some local news about the Dalvait Sisters and Jean Graham:
dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/dalvait-singers-bow-out-after-2538203
And a Facebook post commemorating them, with a picture likely to be taken from the same photographer around the same period: facebook.com/WestDunbartonshireHeritage/posts/1536499056545229
And Jean Graham's funeral acknowledgement.
funeral-notices.co.uk/Scotland-Ayrshire-Lennox/acknowledgements/notice/GRAHAM-JEAN+MBE/1911859

Scotland, United Kindgom 1980
TDS-1

From the rear cover:

Side one:

Scottish folk songs:

Dream Angus - Arr. Hugh S. Robertson, Soloist: Anne Hepburn
Marie's Wedding - Arr. Hugh S. Robertson
Iona Boat Song - Arr. Havelock Nelson
Loch Lomond - adapted from an arrangement of H.B. Chambers, Soloists: Pauline Cochrane, Helen Lockhart, Descant: Anne Reilly

Negro Spirituals:

Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho - Arr. Hugh S. Robertson
Were You There - Arr. Hugh S. Robertson
Great Day - Ed. and Arr. Walter Ehret
Deep River - Arr. Heath Lees, Soloist: Anne Hepburn
Gavotte - J.S. Bach, Arr. Bennett Williams

Side Two:

Music from Hungary:

Ave Maria - Zoltan Kodaly
The Straw Guy - Zoltan Kodaly
Mountain Nights I - Zoltan Kodaly
See the Gipsies - Zoltan Kodaly

'Tis Time, I think, By Wenlock Town - Thomas Armstrong
The Wedding Ring - Geoffry Russel-Smith, Soloists: Heather Barron, Mary Gibson
The Nightingale - Tchaikovsky, Arr. Weelkes

The Dalvait Singers are based in and around Loch Lomondside, in Scotland. As a singing group they have been successful at Blackpool, Glasgow and Renfrewshire Festivals. They were the winners at the Isle of Man Millennium Festival and runners-up in the International "Let the Peoples Sing" competition.
The have taken part in radio and television programmes and have given numerous concerts and recitals.

The Singers:

June Aitken
Heather Barron
Hazel Boyle
Kathleen Brough
Pauline Cochrane
Linda Conn
Susan Conroy
Kathleen Duncan
Stella Hardy
Christine Hosie
Mary Gibson
Anne Hepburn
Elizabeth Laitch
Margaret Livingstone
Helen Lockhart
Sister Margaret Rose
Helen Moffatt
Kathryn McArdle
Patricia McDermott
Carol McElroy
Audrey Newton
Rev. Barbara Quigley
Anne Reilly
Philomena Watson
Margo Wilson

Recording engineer: Wemyss Craigie
Disc supplied by Craighall Studios, Edinburgh
Sleeve photograh by Denis Colman
Printed in England by Senol Printing Ltd. London

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