Sound Recordings, Berkshire and Oxfordshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Berkshire and Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A479r
Creator(s): Baldwin, John R
Site Location(s): Subject - Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7263, -1.54547 ); Subject - Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.4562, -0.97113 ); Subject - Leafield, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.835, -1.54384 )
Date(s): 1966
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 105' 32".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414530
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Dave Blagrove, recorded at Bulmershe Teacher Training Collegein Reading, plays the guitar and sings 'Winson Green Jail' and 'Where Be Thucky Blackbird?' [preceded by accordion music]; Johnny Grace sings 'The Rocks of Bawn'; Dave Blagrove plays the guitar and sings 'The 'Hampton and Oxford Railway', 'There was an Old Farmer in Sussex', 'She was poor but she was honest', [unidentified fragment]; Johnny Grace sings 'Working on the Railroad'; Dave Blagrove sings 'John Barleycorn' [unaccompanied]; Johnny Grace sings 'Golden Daffodils' [with guitar accompaniment]; Dave Blagrove plays the guitar and sings 'Georgie's Lost His Alley'; Johnny Grace sings 'The Candyman'; Dave Blagrove plays the accordion and sings an East coast barging song [? 'The Humber Belle'], 'Thrashing Machine'and 'Cosher Bailey'; Johnny Grace sings 'The Old Dun Cow'; Dave Blagrove sings 'The Prize-Winning Hereford Bull'. [Tr. 4]
Singing at the Jubilee Inn, Bampton, including the piano playing of Bill Dore and the singing of Reg Pratley. The medley of piano tunes, some accompanied by singing, includes 'Won't You Buy My Pretty Flowers?', 'Widdicombe Fair', 'Will the Angels Way Up Yonder', 'Lovely Bunch of Coconuts', 'The Ivy on the Old Garden Wall', 'I Shot My Captain on the Barrack Square', 'When Irish Eyes are Smiling'and 'The Mountains of Mourne' . Reg Pratley sings 'Bless This House', 'Needle Cases', 'Grandmother's Old Armchair', 'The End of My Old Cigar'; all sing 'The Rose of Tralee'; Reg Pratley sings 'Butter Cheese and All', 'A Little Bit Further Down' [fragment], 'The Nightingale' and 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' [fragment]. [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'. [Tr. 6]. This recording of Bill Dore was copied at a faster playback speed from tape LAVC/SRE/A478r. Playback speed is still inconsistent.
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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.
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