Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire

Description

Bill Whiting, recorded at home in Longcot in 1967; sings 'Rosemary Lane', 'The Little Thatched Cottage', 'The Knife in the Window', 'The Old Dog', 'He's gone where the good ponies go' [fragment], 'The Blind Boy', 'So Does Father', 'The Song of the Thrush', 'The Volunteer Organist', 'The Bold Grenadier' [fragment], 'The Way of the World', 'The Wren', 'I was but a boy' [fragment], 'Dick Turpin the Cobbler', 'I've been a woman in my time' [fragment], 'Mother dear I love my father' [fragment], 'The Prickle Holly Bush', 'Emily' [fragment], 'The Royal Albion', 'If I Were a Blackbird', 'The Bold Grenadier', 'Joe Muggins', 'So Does Father', 'The Soldier and the Sailor' [fragment], 'Malone', 'The Husband and His Wife', 'The Jolly Herring' [fragment], 'Green Brooms' [fragment], 'Madge', 'Old Pal'. [Tr. 5]


Mr. R. G. Cook, recorded at home in Purton in 1967; sings 'Ten Little Nigger Boys'; recites a story called 'The Snow Baby'/ 'Snowflower'; sings 'Good Old Salisbury Plain'; recites a rhyme 'Billy Fairplay', a riddle about a blacksmith shoeing a horse, and stories concerning the sharing out of cows, and potato planting. [Tr. 6]


Mrs. I. M. Brown and Mrs. Cotmore [?sisters], recorded in Oxford in 1969; sing 'Work work', 'Trouble in Our Native Land' [fragment], 'Break the News to Mother' [fragment]; talk of learning songs, the Russell family, morris dancing and mummers (costume); sing 'After the Ball is Over' [fragment] and 'I Had a Donkey' [fragment]. [Tr. 7]


Mr. A. Green, recorded at home in Yarnton in 1969; sings 'Farmer's Boy'. [Tr. 1]


Mrs. J. Timms, recorded at home in Horspath in 1969; sings 'In the Gloaming' and 'Miner's Dream of Home'. [Tr. 2]


Mr. T. Maycock and Mr. T. J. Miller, recorded in Charlton-on-Otmoor in 1969. Mr. Maycock sings 'The Drummer Boy', 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', 'I Come from the Country', 'A Man's Too Old at Forty', 'The Old Church Choir'; Mr. Miller sings 'The Old-Fashioned House'; talk of a mummers' play, with the recitation of some lines; songs and singing; Mr. Maycock sings 'The Wiggle-Waggle of His Kilt'; Mr. Miller sings 'Buy a Broom'. [Tr. 3]


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Provenance

Longcot was part of Berkshire at the time of the recording. In the boundary changes of 1974 it became part of Oxfordshire.

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.

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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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