Sound Recordings, Manchester and Shropshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Manchester and Shropshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A348r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom( 53.4809, -2.23743 ); Subject - Aston Munslow, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom( 52.4759, -2.72154 )
Date(s): April 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 63' 54".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414399
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Fred Jordan, singing at the Bay Horse pub in Manchester on the 26 April 1974; sings 'Farmer's Boy', 'The Vacant Chair' and 'The Old Armchair'. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A347r.
Fred Jordan, recorded in Aston Munslow on the 27 April 1974; talks about his childhood in Ludlow during the Depression; leaving school and Ludlow at fourteen; parents; farm work - describes tasks, working day; wages; working with farm horses; horse brasses; learning songs from his parents; singing at Ludlow Town Hall, aged six; pub singing; comments on his singing in Manchester the previous night; memorisation and performance of songs; audiences and types of song selected; music hall songs; mother's influence; importance of musical accompaniment; father's singing; other singers in the village (all deceased).
Singers FJ admires; singing qualities; no song texts or titles - repertoire memorised; talk of his house, the village; making a commercial record; song performance and nerves; text/tune variations (ref. 'Barbara Allen'); memory lapses; knowledge of songs; singing at school and on the farm; preservation of songs; performing on BBC Radio, also television; current gardening work; Hiring Knots [cf. Hiring Fairs] - selection of agricultural labour, types of knots denoting labourer's marital status, county of origin; living in; Hiring Fair, May 1st; parents and family; song performance and choice of song; pitching; favourite songs; sings 'The Dark Eyed Sailor', and discusses different versions, background/history; audience responses; mother's knowledge of seafaring songs. [Tr. 2]. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A349r.
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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