Sound Recording, Suffolk

Description

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about practising songs; the preservation of songs and the collector's tape recordings; old songs - music hall, folk; fishing - herring, grounds, boats (sail, steam) and jobs on board; sings 'Cod Banging' and discusses learning it; sings 'John Barleycorn' and comments on another person's version of it; learning songs in a pub in Grimsby during singing sessions; singing at home with his mother, with accordion accompaniment; living in Wrentham; family; schooldays.


Sings 'One of the Best'; early life; school; grandparents; sings 'Bonny Mary of Argyle', 'Why Have I No Daddy, Mummy?'; identifying old songs; rhythm in song; sings 'Australia' and 'A Broadside'(learned in Grimsby). Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A333r. Starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A331r.


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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. Recording level adjusted. Distortion on some of the songs.

Related material

For a detailed analysis of Bob Hart's singing style, see Julia Bishop's M.A. dissertation (Leeds, 1983), 'The Singing Style of Bob Hart: A Study of Performance in Traditional Song'( LAVC/SRP/1/093).


See also Donald Mackay's B.A. dissertation (Leeds, 1971), 'The Tradition of Pub Singing in the Villages of East Suffolk, With Songs from Bob Hart of Snape and Percy Webb of Tunstall'( LAVC/SRP/2/170).



Ginette Dunn's Ph.D. thesis (Leeds, 1977), 'Popular Singing Traditions in and Around Snape and Blaxhall' ( LAVC/SRP/1/009).


A photocopy of a review of the book, 'The Fellowship of Song'(London: Croom Helm, 1980), that Ginette Dunn published from her thesis is held in the Folklife File, LAVC/FLF/1/3/1 .

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