Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A368r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Blaxhall, East Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.161, 1.4619 )
Date(s): 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 71' 59".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414419
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Cyril Poacher, recorded at home in Blaxhall on the 3 October 1974; sings 'A Broadside', 'The Bonny Bunch of Roses', 'Whitewash' [learned from his father]; talks about farm work and wages, the song 'The Barley Mow'; sings 'Joe Moggins' [learned from Spencer Lee]; sings 'Young Man from the Country' [learned from his grandfather, William Ling]; talks about the Ling brothers singing in the Ship Inn; sings 'Once I Had Plenty of Time' and 'Strolling Round the Town'. [Tr. 1]
Cyril Poacher, recorded at home on 17 November 1974. [Unidentified male questioner]; biographical details; work; learning songs; school; the Army; pub singing; local singers; musical accompaniment; step dancing competitions in the Ship Inn; rivalry between the villages of Blaxhall, Tunstall and Glemham; sing, say or pay; CP's television appearances in Ipswich and Norwich; singing at folk clubs; a film made by Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy, and CP singing 'Nutting Girl'; repertoire and sources of songs.
CP talks about repertoire and sources of songs; step dancing; collector asks about the Ling family and their songs; other local singers; singing at the Ship Inn - getting order, choosing songs, singing other people's songs; sings 'Once I Had Plenty of Time', 'Farmer's Boy' and 'Running Up and Down the Stairs'. [Tr. 2]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Some drop out; intermittent buzzing on Track Two.
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