Sound Recordings, Suffolk
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A346r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )
Date(s): 1975
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 82' 05".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414397
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on the 5 July 1975 , sings 'Cod Banging', and talks about verses added, singing style and Percy Webb; sings and comments on 'Paradise Street'; learning to play the mouth organ; sings part of 'The Mermaid Song', learned at sea; sings (part) and comments on 'The Lincolnshire Poacher', learned from Jack Harland; songs learned from Bob Scarce; the song 'A Broadside' and a version sung by Cyril Poacher; sings fragment of 'The Bonny Bunch of Roses'; comments on the singing of Bob Scarce, Ben Ling and Geoff Ling; singing with John Ling; John Ling's father; singer J. Brakewell, songs sung and pubs sung in; playing the mouth organ. [Tr. 1]
Bob Hart, recorded at home on 4 September 1975, plays tunes on the mouth organ - 'Bye Bye Blackbird' and 'Pack Up All My Care and Woe'; comments on tunes played, types of mouth organ and production of notes; plays fragment ?; plays 'When You Played the Organ', then sings; learning to play the mouth organ; plays 'Hello, Hello, Who's Your Lady Friend?'; talks more about the song and dance tunes played; plays step dance tune, and talks about dances and dance tunes; plays 'Merry Widow Waltz' [collector comments on similar tune, 'The Gold and Silver Waltz']; plays 'Bye Bye Blackbird'; penny song books/sheets; John Goodluck and his children, singing 'The Foggy Dew'; plays 'You are My Sunshine', a step dance tune; plays and then sings [ 'What Makes the Darkies Weep']; remembering songs; sings part of 'Paradise Street'; singing at sea, together when hauling the nets; explains trawling and hauling nets; sings fragment of 'Cod Banging'; learned songs by ear; explains how herring nets brought on board
and his jobs on the boat - operating capstan, explains hauling; plays 'When You Played the Organ'. [Tr. 2]
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