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Sound Recordings, London

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A354r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, London

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A354r

Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette

Site Location(s): Subject - Catford, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.4449, -0.02043 ); Subject - London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.5085, -0.12574 )

Date(s): 1974

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 50' 49".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414405

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

George Belton, recorded in the Rising Sun pub in Catford on 21 May 1974; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', 'Never No More for Me'; tells joke about two men in a psychiatric hospital; sings 'The Volunteer Organist', 'The Thrashing Machine', 'Has Anybody Seen My Tiddler?' and 'The Sussex Toast'. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A353r. The Catford recording is possibly a copy of an original recording made by Keith Summers. All the above titles are recorded within the Keith Summers Collection, held at the National Sound Archive(collection ref. C1002/63).


George Belton, recorded at the Dingles Folk Club in London on the 5 June 1974; sings 'Jim the Carter Lad', 'Two Little Girls in Blue', 'The Bold Fisherman', 'If Those Lips Could Only Speak', 'Green Broom', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Rest of the Day's Your Own'. [Tr. 2]. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A355r.


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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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