Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A486r
Creator(s): Baldwin, John R
Site Location(s): Subject - Charlton-on-Otmoor, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.8396, -1.18378 ); Subject - Swindon, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.558, -1.78116 ); Subject - Witney, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7836, -1.4854 )
Date(s): 1968-1969
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 130' 21".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414537
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Session recorded at Swindon Folksingers' Club in 1968 [?possibly a regional English Folk Dance and Song Society- organised Christmas event]; accordion tune; unidentified male sings [? 'Can You Dance the Polka?'], with guitar accompaniment and assembled company joining in the chorus; male sings [unidentified]; male sings [first line: 'As I came home a little afore my time']; tune medley on the accordion; dancing, accompanied by accordion, fiddle and whistle; male sings [unidentified]; all sing 'Lilly the Pink'; male sings, with guitar accompaniment, 'Polly Perkins of Paddington Green', accordion tune; males recite the Bampton Father Christmas mummers' play; dancing with accordion accompaniment [including 'Shave the Donkey']; male sings 'Old Johnny Bugger'; dancing to accordion accompaniment; male sings 'German Shoemaker'; accordion plays 'Young Sailor Cut Down in his Prime'. [Tr. 1]
Mr. T. J. Miller, recorded at home in Charlton-on-Otmoor in 1969; sings 'Cold Blows the Blast' [fragment], 'The Maid of the Mill' [fragment], 'Don't Send My Boy to Prison' [fragment], 'Larboard Watch', 'Everything's Done for the Best'; recites 'The Ballad of Thomas Trite'; sings 'It's Nothing to do with Me', 'In Days Gone By' [fragment] and 'Sarah and Henery'. [Tr. 2]
Mrs. F. E. Palmer, recorded at home in Witney in 1969; sings 'Break the News to Mother', 'The White Rose', 'Try to Forget Him', 'I'm a man that's done wrong to my parents', 'The Two Orphans', 'Maria Martin', 'Oxford City', 'Up in the North', 'Poor little innocent daughter of mine'; talk of informant's aunt's mother and song making, recording real life events; sings 'The Sailor Boy', 'Room in that beautiful heavenly land', 'Baby is Dead', 'Martha my Dear Wife', 'The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington'; talk of informant's work as a glove maker in Charlbury in 1932, and at home (informant says outwork still undertaken in Leafield and surrounding villages); her wages; charcoal burning; collecting firewood from the local forest (wooding); rabbiting; Leafield village name discussed; anecdotes about Leafield Band; Spanish Liquor Sunday - homemade Spanish liquorice, outing for the village on Palm Sunday; Leafield morris dancers; describes Forest [?of Dean] and going nutting; burial routes [?coffin
trails] through the forest. [Tr. 3]
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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. Variable recording level and playback speed. Some distortion. Adjusted on AC copy.
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