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Total number of records: 31

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culture31
folk music31
english language - dialects24
community life17
persons14
play13
occupations10
manners and customs9
education7
folk dancing7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Baldwin, John R6
Dunn, Ginette6
Sullivan, Keith Frederick5
Brown, I. M.2
Cook, R. G.2
Cotmore, Mrs2
Green, A.2
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)2
Miller, T. J.2
Newman, T.2

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Anderson, Peter M

1973-1975

Tom Walton, recorded November 1973 in Eaton-by-Tarporley; sings one verse of a soul-caking song; also, 'I'm a warm-hearted chap' [first line], [ 'Noble Sir Arthur'], 'Blow the Winds-I-O' [chorus only]...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

11 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about his singing; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', and talks about the subject of the song (ploughman'...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

12 December 1976

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now', [ 'I'm Walking Behind You'], [two unidentified], 'If You Were the Only Girl in the Wor...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

30 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; sings 'Waters of Tyne', and discusses learning it and other Geordie songs; sings/hums fragment of 'Buy Broom Besoms'; sings 'Bobb...

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Sound Recordings, Dorset

Panheinen, Ossi

[1970]

Mr. Denning, recorded in Netherbury; talks about the cider making process, including fermenting, corking and tapping barrels, quantities made, apple orchards, storage, the cider press (demonstrates/ex...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

17 July 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'I'm Sorry I Made You Cry'; singing with his wife; pub singing, Friday nights (pay day), singing and dancing, accordion playing, women leaving the pub room, ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

6 January 1977

[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about playing in a local dance band, and the tunes played, in Farndale and Rosedale Abbey - involvement of the whole ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

29 November 1976

[Collector announcement, states date as 30 November]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about Yorkshire monologues; thoughts on poetry and painting and sad songs; sings 'Greenland Wha...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

July 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on the 16 July 1974, sings and comments on 'Great Red Dawn'; attempts 'When the Sunset Turns the Ocean Blue to Gold'; sings 'The Firemen' (song sung in school); sin...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Cooke, Jane A

[1979-1980]

Children recorded at Birdsedge First School, Birdsedge; sing three parodies - the first to the Dallas theme tune, followed by 'Burn the Teacher'and 'I'd Like to Teach the RAF'. Also sing 'Chinese Rest...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

2 October 1974

Basil Bennett, recorded at home in Snape; talks about learning songs whilst in the Army and the Navy - 'I'm in Love with Two Sweethearts' and 'Farewell My Own True Love'; his and other people's repert...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

September 1974

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape on the 6 September 1974; sings 'The Volunteer Organist', 'I'm the Man You Don't Meet Every Day', 'If I Were a Blackbird'; talks about singing at home; sings 'Happi...

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