Sound Recording, Suffolk
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A398r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 )
Date(s): 21 June 1975
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 76' 24".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414449
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
James Smith, recorded at home in Snape; talks about the song 'The Cobbler' and the use of props; sings the song, learned/sung in the Crown pub, Snape, around fifty years ago; singing in the Golden Key pub; other Blaxhall singers who sang 'The Cobbler'; other pub activities - quoits, dominoes, cards and darts; family; pubs and women's attitudes; pub singing; pay day; quoits matches; biographical details; sings 'Meggy', 'What did the Poor Little Moth' and 'Mucking About the Garden'; the gramophone and records; the wireless; women in pubs; the Crown pub, Snape. [Tr. 4]
James Smith sings 'Old Dun Cow' [two attempts], learned from Maurice Woods; talks about learning songs; sings 'Peggy O' Neal'; singing at Theberton and Pettistree; sings 'Last Night at My Sister's'; comments on singers, including Bob Hart and Sid Messenger; favourite songs; sings 'Straight Banana'; singing with accordion accompaniment; biographical details - schooling, farm work, work at Snape Maltings (with dressing machines), wages, barley drying process explained; sings 'Yes We Have No Bananas' and 'Old Farmer's Servant'; comments on the song repertoires of Bob Scarce and Bob Hart. [Tr. 1]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Some print through/post-echo audible.
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