Sound Recording, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A338r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )
Date(s): 15 July 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 59' 17".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414389
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'God Send You Back to Me'; comments on singing at the Butley Oyster pub and Leiston Folk Club; sings 'Granny's Song at Twilight'; singing on stage with French fishermen in Grimsby; identifying with songs; reference to 'When You and I Were Seventeen' and the collector's list of songs sung by BH (96 titles); singing whilst walking the dog; talk of a murdered woman (from Peasenhall) and her grave and epitaph; sings 'When the Fields are White with Daisies' and 'When You and I Were Seventeen'; reference to Blaxhall and Percy Webb.
Bob Hart sings 'Let the Rest of the World Go By'; discussion of politics; sings 'The Foggy Dew', followed by reference to the alteration of the text by Benjamin Britten; hearing Peter Pears singing; BH recording songs for Topic Records rather than Decca; BH meeting Benjamin Britten; sings 'Old Farmer's Servant', learned on a fishing trip; reference to Lenny Savage singing 'The Foggy Dew'. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A339r.
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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