Sound Recording, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A381r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Tunstall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1437, 1.44646 )
Date(s): 10 September 1974
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 64' 24".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414432
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common; talks about his song repertoire [lists titles]; singing as a child, in church choirs at Hasketon and Bawdsey, at school; pub singing; singing as part of the Harvest Frolic; work during harvest; singing, eating and drinking at the Frolic - sing or pay - also step dancing; women in pubs; parents' songs; singing at folk clubs; favourite songs; truth and meaning in songs (e.g. 'Old Shep'); father's job as a shepherd; PW's work as a horseman; courting and marriage.
Describes his house; job as horseman, working with father, scaring crows, singling carrots, working with show horses; applying for police job after the war; farm work with horses - ploughing, drilling; harvest time - describes cutting and sheaving corn, thatching a corn stack, thrashing process; lists horses' names; breaking horses in; describes waggons used on the farm, and the farm on which he worked for thirty-five years; courting in Woodbridge; watching Charlie Chaplin films; learning songs from twopenny song papers; singing in Orford; talks about James Knights; PW's preference for singing in public.
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Tape speed slows towards the end of Track One.
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