Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A378r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Blaxhall, East Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.161, 1.4619 ); Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )
Date(s): October 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 75' 07".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414429
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Lenny Savage, recorded at home in Snape on the 1 October 1974; talks about the musician Jimmy Meadows [LS's brother-in-law]; Mrs. Savage's childhood on a dairy farm; the singer Velvet Brightwell [father of Jumbo Brightwell]; learning the song 'The Foggy Dew' from a [?BBC] recording on which Velvet Brightwell sings; Benjamin Britten's version of 'The Foggy Dew'; Bob Hart's version of 'The Foggy Dew'; Bob Hart and old songs in print, in newspapers and on postcards; learning songs; maternal grandfather's songs; Whitsun Frolic; sing, say, or pay; introduction of new songs by people working away - sea songs, maltsters at Burton upon Trent; women in pubs and the women's room; describes the room arrangement in the Ship Inn, Blaxhall; song ownership; Geoff Ling and George Ling singing 'The Green Bushes'; Cyril Poacher singing eighteen songs for a commercial record; Dick Woolnough and Bunt Woolnough and their repertoires; singing in a concert party, The Blaxhall Rovers, with Wicketts Richardson,
Percy Richardson and Frank Reeve; LS on singing style. [Tr. 2]
Lenny Savage, recorded at home on 30 October 1974, talks about singers in the Ship Inn, Blaxhall; the singing licence; the Ling family and their relationship to LS; pub games at the Ship Inn (e.g. crib) before singing; singers' repertoires at the Ship; song ownership; Priscilla Savage's songs (LS's mother), including 'Grief O Grief', and her singing to him as a child; describes father's job as a shepherd; children's clothes; the Ling family; biographical details; war experience and postings; pub singing; gambling for cigarettes. [Tr. 3]
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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