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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A367r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A367r

Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette

Site Location(s): Subject - Blaxhall, East Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.161, 1.4619 )

Date(s): 10 September 1974

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 62' 37".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414418

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Cyril Poacher, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about his song repertoire and singers he has learned songs from; Bob Scarce; Percy Webb; old Blaxhall singers; singing at the Ship Inn, Blaxhall - also step dancing; sing, say or pay; women [singing] in pubs; Mrs. Poacher talks about running errands for her mother; women pub singers; comments on Bob Hart as a singer; audiences and order; favourite songs; song ownership - Bob Hart, Percy Webb, Lenny Savage; Percy Ling; James Knights; Frank Woolnough.


Cyril Poacher sings 'Australia'and 'Nancy from Yarmouth'; talks about living and working in Blaxhall - farm work (also in Tunstall); job as cowman; sings 'Flash Company' and comments on his singing style; family singsongs; sings 'Green Broom'; learning songs from his father; describes a cowman's job; milking (hand and mechanised); cows and calving - milk yields.


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

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