Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A478r
Creator(s): Baldwin, John R
Site Location(s): Subject - Purton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7378, -2.44861 ); Subject - Siddington, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.6833, -1.95 ); Subject - Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7082, -1.78128 ); Subject - Leafield, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.835, -1.54384 ); Subject - Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.8217, -1.2886 ); Subject - Yarnton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.8045, -1.31149 )
Date(s): 1966-1969
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 52' 52".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414529
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Nancy Thornton, recorded at home in Fairford, sings 'I've Travelled Many a Mile'. [Tr. 3]
Albert Agg, recorded at home in Siddington, sings 'Buttercup Joe', 'The Old Sow', 'A Bunch of Green Holly and Ivy', 'The Orange and the Blue', 'Jim the Carter's Lad', 'The Fly be on the Turmut', 'Thank God I'm a Gentleman Still', 'Farmer Higgs', 'Old Johnny Oakeye', 'Farmer's Boy', 'Water is the Drink for Me'; recitation of dialect conversation from the Eastleach area, followed by stories, anecdotes, sayings and tongue twisters. [Tr. 4]
Mr. R. G. Cook, recorded at home in Purton, sings 'Fair Nancy'; sheep stealing anecdote; sings 'Tom and the Parson', 'Come My Pretty Maiden', 'I Know Where He Is', 'I Don't Want to be a Soldier', 'Patsy Burke', 'Up and Down the Brickwork'; recites a Bonfire Night rhyme; sings 'The Long Long Trail'. [Tr. 5]
Bill Dore, recorded at home in Leafield, sings 'Jolly Large' [with piano accompaniment], 'The End of My Old Cigar', 'Needle Cases' [fragment], 'Jolly Old Pals', 'If I Were a Blackbird' [fragment], 'Buttercup Joe'; plays two morris dance tunes on the piano [one identified as 'Molly Oxford'. These songs and tunes sung/played by Bill Dore are duplicated at faster playback speed on tape A479r.[Tr. 1]
Florence White, recorded at home in Kidlington, sings and plays the piano. Sings 'When I Was Single'and 'Christchurch Bells'; plays the morris dance tune and announces the dance steps to 'Jockey to the Fair' [ Ascott-under-Wychwood version], and the dance tunes 'Molly (Old Mother) Oxford' and ? 'Princess Royal'. [Tr. 2]
Mr. A. Green, recorded at home in Yarnton in 1969, sings 'I Took My Girl to a Ball Last Night', 'I did a very silly thing the day I took a wife', 'I bought a little story book from a baron in the Strand'; talks about learning songs by ear; sings 'A Different Girl Again', 'The Bold Grenadier' and 'Farmer's Boy'. [Tr. 3]
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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
Bill Dore recorded at 4.75cm/sec; rest at 9.5cm/sec.
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