Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A490r
Creator(s): Baldwin, John R
Site Location(s): Subject - Meysey Hampton, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.6977, -1.82777 ); Subject - Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7522, -1.25596 )
Date(s): 1969
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 65' 50".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414541
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?morris] dancing in pubs at Kempsford; sings 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow' [fragment] - recites the last verse; recites and then sings 'Three Maidens to Milking Did Go', sung by his father Harry Dawes and uncle Eli; sings 'The Little Chickens in the Garden'; talks about enlisting in the Wiltshire Regiment, army songs and sings a fragment of 'Roll on when we go on furlough'; sings the chorus to 'Jim the Carter's Lad', fragment of 'The Rifles have taken my true love away', recites part of 'The Babes in the Wood', tries to recall 'Oh hark, oh hark said Johnson', and sings part of 'The Outlandish Knight'; talks about his sister and her husband.
Mr. D. Higgs, recorded in Meysey Hampton; sings 'Benjamin Mills'; refers to his father whistle playing and tap dancing; sings 'The Rabbit', sung by his grandfather, and talks about his grandfather's playing in a local dance band; talks of local socials and singing/recitations, changes in the village community, village characters, including a water diviner who discovered a paraffin well. [Tr. 3]
Mr. Higgs sings 'The Three Jolly Huntsmen'; and talks about his grandfather's song repertoire and the village of Steventon [?Oxfordshire] where he lived. [Tr. 1]
Mr. E. T. Cook and his wife, recorded at home in Oxford. Mr. Cook sings 'Nutting Girl'; talks about his grandfather, the places Mr. Cook has lived and his occupations; Mrs. E. T. Cook talks about the Plough Jags (traditional drama) in Owston Ferry, Isle of Axholme - describes the costumes worn; reference to the Haxey Hood, the legend of Lady Mowbray losing her hood, and the inter-village game now played every year on January 6th; Mr. Cook sings 'The Pride of Kaldear' [fragment], 'As I Walked Out One May Morning', 'What do you think of that?', 'Time Gentlemen Please', 'It is but a little golden ring' [fragment], 'Sailing Merrily Home', 'Don't Send my Boy to Prison' [fragment] and 'An Absent-Minded Beggar' [sung from a sheet sold in aid of the Boer War]. [Tr. 2]
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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. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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