Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A363r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )
Date(s): September 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 80' 05".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414414
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 6 September 1974; sings 'The Volunteer Organist', 'I'm the Man You Don't Meet Every Day', 'If I Were a Blackbird'; talks about singing at home; sings 'Happiness', 'Straight Banana', 'My Old Grey Coat', 'I Don't Care What You Used to Be'; talk of Bob Hart; living in Snape; husband's job at Snape Maltings; her working life; thoughts on modern life and importance of religion; cost of living; thoughts on marriage, money, the home, family and extended family; sings 'I Wonder What's Become of Sally', 'She's Proud and She's Beautiful' [learned from father]; asks about the collector's family; sings 'San Francisco' and 'Home'.
Ruby Ling sings 'Nelly Grey', 'My Grandfather's Clock' and 'Polly Oliver' [last learned when at school]; talks about concerts at Snape Maltings; sings 'Railway Train'[known by her brother-in-law], 'The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo' and 'The Ring Your Mother Wore'.
Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A362r.
Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snapeon the 9 September 1974, talks about learning songs and their sources (inc. Sidney Cook); sings 'The Sailor Boy' and 'Flash Company'; talks about learning songs from friends and her husband; sings 'Wheel Your P'rambulator', 'Mother of Mine'and 'All of the Day I am Dreaming' - comments that she learned the last song on the piano at the age of sixteen; sings 'When You and I Were Seventeen'. Concludes on tapes LAVC/SRE/A364r and LAVC/SRE/A365r.
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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