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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A331r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A331r

Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette

Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )

Date(s): 25 June 1974

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 58' 56".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414382

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about his family; experience of World War One, war injuries, hospitalisation in Cambridge and Sidcup, writing poetry, fellow patients, including Harry Smythe; enlisting in the Army in 1914, uniform, based in France - fears, memories, comradeship; recites his own poem.


Sings 'All Jolly Fellows Who Follow the Plough', learned from uncle who used to sing it while he was ploughing; songs sung at school; discusses and then sings 'Barbara Allen', where learned and age of versions; sings 'Bold William Taylor', and talks of the age of songs including 'Barbara Allen'; sings [ 'As I Strolled Out to Aylesbury'] - learned while working on fishing boats, sung in pubs; talk of other singers; sings chorus of 'Wheel Your P'rambulator'; reference to Mr. Austin and Mr. Webb recorded on LP disc with informant; thoughts on song ownership, choice of song to sing in public; audiences; sings 'Comrades'. Continues on tapes LAVC/SRE/A332r and LAVC/SRE/A333r.


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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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Community Life

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England

English Language - Dialects

Folk Music

Folk singers

Folk songs, English

Musical performance

Occupations

Suffolk

War

Work songs

World War, 1914-1918

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