Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A375r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Little Glemham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1667, 1.43333 )
Date(s): 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 81' 43".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414426
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
James Knights, recorded at home in Little Glemham on the 14 October 1974; talks about Bob Hart; playing quoits; old songs and modern versions; remembering songs; 'Poacher's Song', 'Lancashire Poacher'; recites the words to 'I Like Me Wife, Me Pipe and Me Glass'; drink; collector's family; Jumbo Brightwell; Jumbo Poacher, Cyril Poacher's father; Aaron Ling and Geoff Ling; step dancing; Eli Smith, dancing double time, his footwear, dancing at the Crown pub in Snape; the Broomstick Dance; television appearances; records made. [Tr. 1]
James Knights, recorded at home on the 1 November 1974; sings 'Be Kind to Your Parents'[some distortion during the singing], learned in Yorkshire aged about fifteen; thoughts on marriage and a romance in Yorkshire; comments on his singing abilities; pub singing and licences/regulations; singing as a boy, with his sister; his repertoire. [Tr. 2]
James Knights, recorded at home on 15 November 1974, talks about pub singing/singers, the sing that morning; singing when younger; family background; Harvest Frolics, organised by the farmer after the harvest; learning songs with his sister; harvesting work; thoughts on women/minors in pubs, behaviour of young men in pubs; popularity of pub singing; radio and television appearances; filmed by the BBC at the Crown pub in Snape; sings 'I Can't Change It'. [Tr. 3]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Distortion of informant's voice when singing.
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