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Sound Recordings, Norfolk and Suffolk

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A399r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, Norfolk and Suffolk

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A399r

Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette

Site Location(s): Subject - Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.6278, 1.29834 ); Subject - Butley, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1067, 1.45717 )

Date(s): June 1975

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 77' 21".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414450

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Singing at the Norwich Folk Festival, 21 June 1975. Bob Hart sings 'Rose of Tralee'; Percy Webb sings 'She's Proud and She's Beautiful'; Bob Hart sings 'Australia'; Percy Webb sings 'Nutting Girl'; Bob Hart sings 'The Female Cabin Boy'; Walter Pardon sings 'Rambling Blade'; Percy Webb sings 'Wheel Your P'rambulator'; Bob Hart sings 'White Wings', 'What a Funny Little Place to Have One' and 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough'; Walter Pardon sings 'Poacher's Song', 'Let the Wind Blow High or Low' and 'Old Brown's Daughter'.


Compere introduces Percy Webb, who sings 'The Dark Eyed Sailor', 'Have You Got a Light Boy?', 'Old Farmer's Servant' and 'Flash Company'. [Tr. 2]


Percy Webb, recorded at the Butley Oyster pub (Suffolk) on the 22 June 1975; sings 'Ball of Yarn', 'Flash Company', 'Have You Got a Light Boy?' and 'Nutting Girl'. Lots of audience participation. [Tr. 3]


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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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Community Life

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England

English Language - Dialects

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Folk Music

Folk festivals

Folk singers

Folk songs, English

Norwich

Suffolk

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