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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A364r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A364r

Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette

Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )

Date(s): 9 September 1974

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 62' 22".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414415

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape; sings 'Hymns My Mother Sang', 'Yes, We Have No Bananas', 'The Melody that Makes You Mine', 'Carolina Moon', 'Tie a String Around Your Finger', 'Yes I Wonder, Yes I Wonder'; talks about singing with a friend, working in service in Hampstead (London), from the age of fourteen; wages; family; living in Aldeburgh; marriage; sings 'If You Were the Only Girl in the World', 'My Home in Tennessee', 'Sleepy Valley', 'All Alone by the Telephone', 'All the Best Looking Girls', 'My Blue Heaven', 'Sweethearts Will Never Grow Old'.


Sings 'Mother Kelly's Doorstep', 'Baby's Prayer', 'Paradise' , 'I Was Born in Tipperary'; learning songs from her brother-in-law, c. fifty years ago; sings 'The Little Old Church in the Valley', 'City of Laughter', 'The Spanish Cavalier', 'In a Little Garden Suburb', 'When They Sound the Last All Clear', 'The White Cliffs of Dover', 'I Haven't Said Thanks' and 'When the Fields are White with Daisies'. Continuation of tape LAVC/SRE/A363r. Concludes on tape 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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