Sound Recordings, Suffolk
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A400r
Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette
Site Location(s): Subject - Blaxhall, East Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.161, 1.4619 ); Subject - Snape, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.171, 1.50047 ); Subject - Little Glemham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.1667, 1.43333 )
Date(s): 1975
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 96' 40".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414451
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
George Bennett[?recorded at home in Snape in 1975]. His ?wife/?sister is also present. Sings 'Little Jimmy Tiddler', ''Mid Shot and Shell' [words indistinct], 'I Have a Saviour'; information on 'Little Jimmy Tiddler'. [Tr. 4]
Reg Jay, recorded at home in Blaxhall on the 25 June 1975, talks about his song repertoire; family; work; being in the Army; his mother singing in the Ship Inn; RJ singing in the Crown pub in Snape, pre-World War Two; sings part of 'Just an Old Fashioned Lady' and 'Farmer's Boy'; comments on Cyril Poacher and family, the Ship Inn, the Plough pub in Snape and singing challenges; Wicketts Richardson; the few Blaxhall songsters left; the reluctance of youngsters to sing in pubs; poverty and singing for money in the past.
Young people singing for drink in pubs; the effect of the juke box on pub singing; singing at the Lion pub in Little Glemham; incentives for young singers in the past; effect of commercial LP recordings on the singing tradition in pubs; his family's occupations; singing not encouraged in the family - compares his family to that of Cyril Poacher's and the Lings [RJ related to Geoff Ling]; inter-relationships within village families in Blaxhall; favourite singers, Wicketts Richardson and Cyril Poacher - comments on their songs and singing styles, also Bob Hart and Percy Ling; thoughts on the decline of pub singing, lack of accordion players as accompanists, the singing of Cyril Poacher; comments at this point from RJ's son, on the singers and songs sung at the Ship Inn; RJ's preference for accordion accompaniment, and reference to Fred Pearce; talks about Bob Scarce singing in the Ship; Blaxhall village in the past - village fetes, tug-o-war, fights, large families. [Tr. 1]
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9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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