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Rummaging through a shelf of records I haven't looked at since 2012, I found a couple old HMV label pressings of Delia Murphy that were "PRESSED IN EIRE". Great Irish ballads!

I posted these recordings to YouTube in 2012 and was promptly shut down for infringing on copyrights. It took me a year before I was able to post longer videos and I had to take an online 'exam' to see if I learned my lesson about what constitutes copyright infringement!

Cliff

Here are at least some samples of the recordings:

http://78records.cdbpdx.com/DMIB/Sample/

Hopefully, these won't get me in trouble! Cliff

Dating from 1938, IM576 was Delia Murphy's first recording. In March 1939 she recorded four more sides for Irish HMV, which were also issued in the UK on EMI's Regal-Zonophone label. Most of her UK issues, however, were on the HMV BD series label. I grew up with these records as a child and still treasure them.

As well as recording, Delia Murphy and Richard Hayward performed together many times in concert, despite the fact that she was a Roman Catholic and he a Protestant Ulsterman. Away from folk music, the university educated Delia was the wife of a senior Irish diplomat who at various times was Ambassador to the UK, the Vatican, Australia, Germany and Canada.

She even claimed to have taught John McCormack to sing in Gaelic!

epigramophone wrote:Dating from 1938, IM576 was Delia Murphy's first recording. In March 1939 she recorded four more sides for Irish HMV, which were also issued in the UK on EMI's Regal-Zonophone label. Most of her UK issues, however, were on the HMV BD series label. I grew up with these records as a child and still treasure them.

As well as recording, Delia Murphy and Richard Hayward performed together many times in concert, despite the fact that she was a Roman Catholic and he a Protestant Ulsterman. Away from folk music, the university educated Delia was the wife of a senior Irish diplomat who at various times was Ambassador to the UK, the Vatican, Australia, Germany and Canada.

She even claimed to have taught John McCormack to sing in Gaelic!

Thanks for this great info! Cliff

CDBPDX wrote:Rummaging through a shelf of records I haven't looked at since 2012, I found a couple old HMV label pressings of Delia Murphy that were "PRESSED IN EIRE". Great Irish ballads!

I posted these recordings to YouTube in 2012 and was promptly shut down for infringing on copyrights. It took me a year before I was able to post longer videos and I had to take an online 'exam' to see if I learned my lesson about what constitutes copyright infringement!

Cliff

These pre-1963 recordings are considered public domain in the EU, but not in the USA. A notable court case (Capitol Records v. Naxos USA) established that since pre-1972 recordings are not protected by US Federal law, they are not subject to international copyright treaties, therefore the state common law protection still applies until 2067. After that, by Federal law, all pre-1972 sound recordings become public domain in the USA.