Sound Recording, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A341r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )
Date(s): 17 July 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 63' 43".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414392
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'I'm Sorry I Made You Cry'; singing with his wife; pub singing, Friday nights (pay day), singing and dancing, accordion playing, women leaving the pub room, landlady at the Golden Key pub; sings 'Just Before the Battle Mother', and comments on its dating to the Boer War; singing in public and choice of songs; rehearsing at home; comments on singing and the audience at sessions in Leiston; sings and comments on 'My Old Kentucky Home'; other singers in Snape and Blaxhall; sings 'Silver Threads Among the Gold'.
Bob Hart sings 'Roast Beef of Old England' (sung at school), 'Put Me Amongst the Girls' (known from World War One); marriage in Snape Church in 1917; sings 'No Rose in All the World' (sung at weddings); BH singing at weddings, in Village Hall and Men's Club; involvement in Men's Club; sings 'My Souvenirs'; sings 'Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty'and 'What a Time' from World War One; singing when marching; sings and comments on 'Seventeen Come Sunday'; the dating of songs; songs re. the death of General Wolfe; Suffolk dialect, words and expressions. Continued from tape LAVC/SRE/A340r. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A342r.
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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