The Ticket - BBC Radio Ulster
WHAT price a suitcase full of songs?
For many, they summon priceless memories.
So when young local singer Hannah McPhillimy chanced upon such a suitcase, she had to record the treasures inside.
Speaking on Radio Ulster's The Ticket she explained that her fiancé's Nanny June was a well-known singer in the long ago.
She was June Millar - and as a child, she used to entertain the troops.
She sang in the Ritz and the Ulster Hall and some called her the "other Ruby Murray".
Hannah wanted to record some of the 800 songs dating from as far back as 1860 and lockdown seemed like the perfect time to do so.
To her, some of the numbers seemed strange and funny - who's for Courtin' in the Kitchen or If I'd Known You Were Comin' I'd Have Baked a Cake? - but they chime with other generations and she found that her recordings, posted on YouTube, were being played out for people isolated in care homes; a little magic to brighten the day.
She has 800 songs - think South Pacific, High Society - and she plans to record one a week so there's plenty to look forward to.
But it's her beautiful voice that will haunt you.
Nanny June will have been delighted to hear the old favourites again.
And Hannah treated The Ticket's audience to a little of her personal magic with the song Smile - the old ones are clearly gold.
She said that she has heard that rooms full of older people in care homes are singing along to the hits of their high times.
"I sent them to June and a few other grannies," she said.
On VE Day, her songs were played in care homes and the whole room would sing along.
Sometimes the old tunes - and a haunting young voice - are the best.
