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Sound Recording, Berkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A484r

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Berkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A484r

Creator(s): Baldwin, John R

Site Location(s): Subject - Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.4562, -0.97113 )

Date(s): 1967

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 91' 53".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414535

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Dave Blagrove, recorded in Reading; sings [with ?banjo/?ukulele accompaniment] 'Sandy Lane', the Oxford boatmen's songs 'The Ballad of Tom Beechey' and 'Les Morton's Navy'; 'Maggie May', 'Farmer's Boy', 'Just as the Tide was Flowing' [fragment], 'Old Towler' [fragment], 'The Bitch Fox', 'There was an Old Farmer in Berkshire', 'The Free and Happy Barley' [fragment], 'Many a mile I've travelled', 'The Prize-Winning Hereford Bull', 'Georgie's Lost His Alley', 'The Wren' [children's rhyme], 'Where Be Thucky Blackbird?', 'I Came From Cumnor', 'The Newbury Custard Pie', 'The Scouring of the White Horse' [fragment], 'The Berkshire Tragedy', 'The Lobster' [fragment] and 'Boating Song'. [Tr. 4].


This recording is followed by a multi-track recording of a radio programme on Percy Grainger, with a piano, singer and speaker simultaneously audible on another track. The contents of neither track is clearly discernible. Not copied onto AC221.


Track Two of this tape contains recordings, possibly copied from commercial LP records, of an unidentified female singer [with guitar] singing a number of folk songs [some in French and German], an unidentified male pop group [?1960s] and an unidentified female singer [?1960s]. [Trs. 5-7]. No details of these recordings appear in John Baldwin's thesis.


9 of 20.

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. Variable recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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