Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A485r
Creator(s): Baldwin, John R
Site Location(s): Subject - Purton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7378, -2.44861 ); Subject - Siddington, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.6833, -1.95 ); Subject - Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.8603, -1.59847 ); Subject - Wootton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7066, -1.31561 ); Subject - Kemble, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.675, -2.01951 )
Date(s): 1968-1969
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 129' 37".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414536
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mrs. D. Brooks and Mr. Coombs [?brother and sister], recorded in Shipton-under-Wychwood in 1968. Mrs. Brooks describes her husband playing a horse game. [Tr. 1]
Mr. Coombs sings 'The Old Leather Britches' [fragment] and 'The Family Dunn' [fragment]; talk of Shipton's minstrel troop; both sing 'John Adolphus'; Mrs. Brooks talks about a visiting one-man band, and sings 'Katie Carroll' [fragment]; talks of Welsh hunger marchers on the Burford Road; visitors to the village, including Compton MacKenzie; poultry driving; changes along the Burford Road; highwaymen; Shipton church; changes in the village; school rhymes; singing and learning songs; sings 'Bring I a Nail and a Hammer' [fragment], 'The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime' [fragment], 'The Mistletoe Bough' [fragment], 'Eliza Jane'; both sing 'I Come From the Country' [fragment]; Mr. Coombs sings 'Crooked Rifles'; Mrs. Brooks sings 'Bogeyman Jingle' [fragment]; Mr. Coombs sings 'The Rooks' [fragment]; Mrs. Brooks sings 'An Old-Fashioned Flapper'; both talk about George Spragg [?Mrs. Brooks' uncle]; Mrs. Brooks sings 'The Village Pump' [fragment]; talks about her uncle, the local railway, musical
evenings with other families, rabbiting, local accent, her uncle and bell ringing; sings 'When the Parson Came to Tea' and 'Some Eggs and Some Ham and Some Onions' [fragment]; talks about visiting other families as a child. [Tr. 2]
Mrs. F. Davis, recorded at home in Wootton in 1968; sings 'Camden Town', learned from her mother; recites 'Betty's Experience', talks about penny tracts, recites 'The Reason for Clinging to Life', 'The Old Parishioner and the New Parson', 'Harry's Dilemma', 'Mr. Page's Geese' and 'Missing From Home'. [Tr. 3]
Mrs. J. Fellows, recorded at home in Kemble in 1969; sings 'Waiting to Welcome the Pilgrims of the Night' [fragment]. [Tr. 4]
Mr. R. G. Cook, recorded at home in Purton in 1969; sings 'The Warwickshire Village', recites 'The Corporal and the Sergeant Major', 'Corporal Cook'; sings 'I Never Work on a Sunday', [organ tune], and sings 'The Ship that Never Returned'. [Tr. 5]
Mr. A. Cobb, recorded at home in Siddington in 1969; recites words from the Sapperton Mummers' Play; sings 'Johnny Smoker'; talks about dancing in the play; sings 'I Had a Fine Hat Boys', 'William Taylor', a carol, 'Back Lane'[to the tune 'Cranbrook']. [Tr. 6]
Albert Agg, recorded at home in Siddington in 1969; recites 'John Wesley'; sings 'Oh who will o'er the Downs so free' [fragment], 'Nick-Nack Paddy Whack'; recites 'Eckeldy-Speckledy'; sings 'There was a young lady from Luton'; talks about local parodies of songs, recites 'Ta-ra-ra-bum-di-ay' [and parody of ], 'Multiplication is Vexation'; sings 'Wrap me up in my tarpaulin jacket' [fragment], 'The Muffin Man' [fragment], 'My Old Man is a Muck Man' [fragment], recites 'The Old Owl' ; sings 'Old Jim Padelock', 'One-Eyed Riley' [fragment] and 'The Oak and the Ash' [fragment]. [Tr. 7]
Mr. A. Cobb, recorded at home in Siddington in 1969; sings 'The Wheel of Life' [fragment], 'Katie Farrell' [fragment], 'Paddy Fagan' [fragment], 'Brennan on the Moor', 'Canadian Boat Song', 'The Crocodile', 'Kymanero' [fragment], 'My Old Arm Chair'. [Tr. 8]
Mr. A. Cobb, recorded at home in Siddington in 1969; plays 'The Sweet Nightingale' and 'Onward Christian Soldiers' on the saw. [Tr. 9]
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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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