Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Description

Muriel Moss, recorded at home in Oxford, sings 'Lord Lovel', 'The Banks of the Sweet Dundee', 'The Dark Eyed Sailor', 'John Barleycorn' [fragment], 'Christchurch Bells', 'Rosetta was a Farmer's Daughter' [fragment], 'Needle Cases' [fragment], 'The Merry Ploughboy'. [Tr. 1]


Harry Johnson, recorded at home in Standlake, sings 'The Jolly Ploughboy', 'At the Corner of the Street', 'I Want to See My Little Old Home', 'I Love the White Rose', 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough' [part], 'The Wild Rover', 'Ragtime Wedding', 'Fill Up Your Glasses', 'Dublin's White City', 'Irish Molly' [fragment], 'I took my girl to a Ball last night', 'I Heard a Robin Singing' [fragment], 'Springtime in the Rockies' [fragment], 'The Old Apple Tree'. [Tr. 2]


Mrs. William Lock, recorded at home in Bampton, sings 'A Horrible Tale'. [Tr. 3], 'Grey-Haired Old Woman', 'The Lamp in the Window' [fragment], 'The Wife of a Soldier' and 'Just as the Bells were Ringing'. [Tr. 4]


Holly Parsons, recorded at home in Radford, sings 'At the Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell' and 'Near Woodstock Town'. [Tr. 5]


Harry Johnson, recorded at home in Standlake, sings 'The Old Rustic Bridge', 'The Fields are White with Daisies', 'Swanee River', 'Maggie Murphy's Home', 'Three Leaves of Shamrock', 'The Bold Grenadier', 'When Shall We Get Married John?', 'The Graveyard by the City', 'Where are you Going to My Pretty Maid?', 'When Shall We Get Married John?', 'The Banks of the Clyde', 'Little Brown Jug', 'I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen', 'Little Log Cabin', 'The Volunteer Organist', 'The Old Armchair', 'Go and Leave Me If You Wish It', 'Dear Louise', 'Barber's Shop', 'The Life of a Man' [fragment], 'Two Little Girls in Blue' [fragment] and 'Watercress Girl'. [Tr. 6]


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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.

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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