Sound Recording, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A380r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Tunstall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1437, 1.44646 )
Date(s): 19 July 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 63' 42".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414431
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common; talks about Army life (pay, food) whilst in India; experiences of World War One (where stationed, being shelled/gassed, trenches, leave, Armistice, injuries, on board a hospital ship, further hospitalisation in Britain, Catterick garrison); family, mother and father, six siblings; farm work and horseman's job after the war; houses lived in; marriage and children; general health.
Singing at school, church choir; pub singing - organisation, repertoire, audience, musicians; step dancing; learning songs; repertoire; other local singers; importance of memory/memorisation; audience participation; singing at Loughborough [?Folk Festival]; singing whilst working; choice of songs; favourite songs; radio appearances; the song 'Old Shep' and listeners' responses; quality of singing, nervousness and audience reactions; singing humorous and bawdy songs; piano playing and music, variation in tunes and the spoiling of old songs; reading/writing music; education; working on farms with horses - ploughing, haymaking, brasses, horse breaking, mechanisation. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A379r.
52 of 79.
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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