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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A379r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A379r

Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette

Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 ); Subject - Tunstall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1437, 1.44646 )

Date(s): July 1974

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 60' 54".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414430

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Lenny Savage, recorded at home in Snape on the 18 July 1974; talks about his childhood, work on a rabbit farm and with steam engines; singing and step dancing (including women dancers) at the Ship Inn, Blaxhall - singles/pairs/fours, accompanied by a button accordion; accordion player Fred List; women singers; Velvet Brightwell; quoits teams and post-match singing; bell ringing; Cyril Poacher, Lenny Savage, Freddie Ling and song ownership; LS's song repertoire; Geoff Ling and George Ling - comments on singers and singing style; Percy Ling of Tunstall; the Lings of Blaxhall and nicknames; sings 'The Foggy Dew' and 'Nancy from Yarmouth'; conversation, including Mrs. Savage, about pubs. [Tr. 1]


Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common on 19 July 1974, gives biographical details; working life, including farm work as head horseman and working with show horses; comments on Bob Hart; learning songs from his father; favourite songs; learning songs from twopenny song papers; supernatural experiences in the childhood home, and in the trenches during World War One; anecdotes re. being in the Army in India after the war. [Tr. 2]. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A380r.


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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Tape motor hum audible on part of Lenny Savage recording.

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