Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A345r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )
Date(s): June 1975
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 64' 49".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414396
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Ruby Ling, recorded at Snape Old Folks' Club, sings 'Wheel Your P'rambulator'; Bob Hart sings 'Why Shouldn't We Sing?'; all sing a hymn, 'Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer'. Recorded on 19 June 1975. [Tr. 2]
Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on 22 June 1975, talks about hymn singing at the Old Folks' Club; Church and Chapel; choice of songs sung at the club; politics and reference to the Irish situation; choosing songs; sings fragment of 'Paradise Street'; sings and comments on 'When It's Lamplighting Time in the Valley'; sings 'Two Little Boys' and 'Death of Nelson'.
Bob Hart talks about singing in the school choir with his brother; father's farm wages compared with BH's working on steam drifters; strictness of farm owners; sings [ 'In a Dear Little Town in the Old County Down'] [incomplete]; sings 'Paradise Street' [incomplete]; talks of his work at Snape Maltings; retirement; fellow worker and singer, Jimmy Smith [i.e. James Smith] (sings fragment of one of his songs); sings and comments on 'As I Strolled Out One May Morning' [two attempts, incomplete]; Squit songs; singing at Debenham, and reference to singing at the Festival Hall, London; acoustics and singing; Percy [?Ling/?Webb]; sings part of 'The Dark Eyed Sailor'. [Tr. 3]
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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