Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Description

George Powell, recorded in his home in Wigginton. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A476r. Sings 'Jim the Carter's Lad', 'Beer Beer Glorious Beer' [fragment] and 'Joan's Ale'.


Mr. R. G. Cook, recorded at home in Purton, sings 'The Little Shirt My Mother Made for Me'and 'Tom and the Parson'.


Albert Agg, recorded at home in Siddington sings 'We're all Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', 'When Shall We Get Married?', [ 'Come Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl', 'The Barley Mow', 'I Wish I Was Single', 'Kymanero', 'Rolling Home', 'Glorious Beer' [fragment], 'Early in the Morning', 'The Bogey Man Ditty', 'Follow Me', 'The Cuckoo', 'The Golden Vanity'; Mrs. Albert Aggsings 'Inside the Workhouse'; Albert Agg sings 'Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid?', 'The Holly and the Ivy'; fragments of songs and stories - the rhyme 'One Two Buckle My Shoe'; riddle and explanation; stories about a horse, farm boy and farm workers, the church, a shepherd, old gardener, a gravedigger, local dialect, a parson; talks about dialect and speaking, inflections, examples and anecdotes. [Tr. 1]


Mr. E. T. Cook, recorded at home in Oxford, sings 'The Merry Party', 'Just Break the News to Mother', 'The Last Roll-Call', 'The Banks of the Nile', 'The Cottage with Ivy Round the Door', 'Jim the Carter's Lad', 'The Lost Lady Found', 'Tommy Aitkens', 'Sons of the Sea', 'We've Got a Navy', 'Joe Muggins' ( 'I Don't Care If I Do'), 'My Father's Picture', 'The Dark Eyed Sailor', 'Banks of the Sweet Dundee', 'Mother-in-Law', 'Sailing Merrily Home', 'While London Sleeps', 'Two Little Girls in Blue', 'Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow', 'Farmer's Boy', 'We're All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', 'Gentleman Soldier'. [Tr. 2]


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Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

A written application to the Head of Special Collections, University of Leeds, is required. This should identify clearly the research for which access to the sound recording(s) and/or any transcription(s) of both texts and music is requested. Access is permitted only within the Special Collections searchroom at the University of Leeds. No copy recordings or transcriptions whatsoever shall be made. Permission will normally be given for bona fide research purposes only and not for commercial use of any kind.

A written application for publication, performance or re-recording/transcription of the item(s) (or parts thereof) should be made to the Head of Special Collections, University of Leeds. Applications will be considered on a one-to-one basis, in consultation with the collector, his family and/or descendants, and where possible with the family and/or descendants of the informant(s) recorded on this tape/in the transcription(s). Permission will normally be given for bona fide research purposes only and not for commercial use of any kind.


Copyright shall remain at all times with the Fargher-Noble Trust on behalf of the collector, the informant(s) and their families/descendants. Where it is no longer possible for the University of Leeds to make contact with the collector, informant(s) or their families/descendants, the Head of Special Collections will consult and liaise with the Trustees of the Fargher-Noble Trust (SC 026604).

Copyright: Fargher-Noble Trust

Physical and technical conditions

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

Related material

John Baldwin's M.Phil. thesis (Leeds, 1978), 'The Folk Song of the Upper Thames' ( LAVC/SRP/1/090). Original tape box insert bearing informants' names and recording locations held in file LAVC/SRE/ARI/018.

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