Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A482r
Creator(s): Baldwin, John R
Site Location(s): Subject - Wigginton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.9973, -1.435 ); Subject - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.8807, -1.30656 ); Subject - Leigh, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.6167, -1.9 ); Subject - Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7067, -2.18502 )
Date(s): 1966
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 72' 57".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414533
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
George Powell, recorded in Wigginton; sings 'Jim the Carter's Lad' [fragment], 'Beer Beer Glorious Beer' [fragment] and 'Joan's Ale'. [Tr. 1]
Tom Timms and George Powell, recorded in Wigginton. Tom Timms sings 'Be Civil Just and Kind' [fragment], 'All That Glitters is Not Gold' [fragment], 'Miss Clara Nolan's Ball' [fragment], 'The True Aberdeen', 'The Girl I Courted Years Ago', 'A Leaf of a Rose' [fragment], 'Green Leaves', 'Two Little Maids'; George Powell sings 'Hard Times'; Tom Timms sings 'The Mistletoe Bough' [fragment], 'Little Billy Williams', 'Farmer's Boy' [comments on origins], 'The Four-Posted Bedstead' [fragment], 'The Fly be on the Turmut' [fragment], 'The Little Shirt My Mother Made for Me', 'Flannagan', 'Old Mother Hubbard'; George Powell recites the words of a mummers' play, and discusses its characters, their costumes/make up, the musical accompaniment, visiting houses and villages in the early part of the twentieth century, drinking beer, singing, the people involved and the locations of performances; Tom Timms sings 'The Barley Rakings' [fragment], 'We're All Jolly Fellows As Follow the Plough', 'Out in the
Moonlight', 'To Philadelphia in the Morning' [fragment], 'The Camel Corps' and 'Lay Him on the Hillside'. [Tr. 2]
Mr. Bryant (Senior), Mrs. Bryant (Senior) and their son, recorded singing (with melodeon accompaniment) at home in Tackley. Mr. Bryant sings 'The Midnight Express', 'Farmer's Boy' [fragment]; Mrs. Bryant sings 'Broken Doll'; Mr. Bryant sings 'Tell me if he will return again'; Mrs. Bryant sings 'Lard and Cold Cabbage'[ fragment]; Mr. Bryant sings 'Everybody's Loved by Somebody'; Mrs. Bryant sings 'William Taylor'; Mr. Bryant sings 'The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime'; Mrs. Bryant sings 'Irish Molly'; Mr. Bryant (Junior) sings 'Goodbye Booze' and 'The Royal Family'; Mrs. Bryant sings 'Silver Threads Among the Gold'. [Tr. 3]
Barbara Read, recorded at home in Leigh (near Cricklade); sings 'Drink Puppy Drink' [fragment]; Lettice Prout, recorded at home in Minchinhampton; sings 'There Were Three Jolly Fishermen', and describes how a group of children would perform the song (dancing and actions); repeats the song; sings a wassailing song, 'Wassail Wassail' [fragment]; and recites three children's rhymes, 'Down on the Carpet', 'Ellen's Got Married' and 'Wallflowers'. [Tr. 4]
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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. Low recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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