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Total number of records: 21

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culture21
english language - dialects21
folk music21
persons14
community life10
folk drama8
folk dancing6
manners and customs6
occupations6
holidays5

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Baldwin, John R21
Cook, R. G.4
Powell, George4
'Dusty'3
Agg, Albert3
Cook, E. T.3
Dawes, George3
Maycock, T.3
Miller, T. J.3
Newman, T.3

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Sound Recording, Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mr. T. Maycock, recorded in Charlton-on-Otmoor; sings 'A Beautiful Golden Picture' and 'O Father Stop and Think'; recollections from his childhood of a (musical) event at Woodstock, involving the ? Ba...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Berkshire

Baldwin, John R

1966-1969

Compilation of folk songs, selected from fieldwork recordings LAVC/SRE/A476r - A493r. The majority of the (male and female) singers were recorded in their own homes, singing unaccompanied. A small num...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1966

Muriel Moss, recorded at home in Oxford, sings 'Lord Lovel', 'The Banks of the Sweet Dundee', 'The Dark Eyed Sailor', 'John Barleycorn' [fragment], 'Christchurch Bells', 'Rosetta was a Farmer's Daught...

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The Folk Song of the Upper Thames

Baldwin, John R

1978

M.Phil. study, based on fieldwork carried out between 1966 and 1968 (with some additional reference to material collected subsequently, in 1969), which relates songs, singing and singers to their soci...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1966-1967

George Powell, recorded in his home in Wigginton. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A476r. Sings 'Jim the Carter's Lad', 'Beer Beer Glorious Beer' [fragment] and 'Joan's Ale'. Mr. ...

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Sound Recording, Berkshire

Baldwin, John R

1967

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...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1966

[Collector announcement]; Doris Warner, recorded singing in her home in Ascott-under-Wychwood. Mrs. Warner announces the title of each song before singing it. She sings 'Jockey to the Fair', 'Come Las...

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Sound Recordings, Berkshire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1966

Dave Blagrove, recorded at Bulmershe Teacher Training Collegein Reading, plays the guitar and sings 'Winson Green Jail' and 'Where Be Thucky Blackbird?' [preceded by accordion music]; Johnny Grace sin...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1966

George Powell, recorded in Wigginton; sings 'Jim the Carter's Lad' [fragment], 'Beer Beer Glorious Beer' [fragment] and 'Joan's Ale'. [Tr. 1] Tom Timms and George Powell, recorded in Wigginton. Tom ...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mr. T. Maycock and Mr. T. J. Miller , recorded in Charlton-on-Otmoor. Mr. Maycock sings 'The Old Rustic Bridge' ; discussion of song repertoire; sings 'A Man's Too Old at Forty', 'Buttercup Joe', 'Wra...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire

Baldwin, John R

1967-1969

Bill Whiting, recorded at home in Longcot in 1967; sings 'Rosemary Lane', 'The Little Thatched Cottage', 'The Knife in the Window', 'The Old Dog', 'He's gone where the good ponies go' [fragment], 'The...

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Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mr. J. Morgan, recorded at home in South Marston; sings 'Bold Sir Rylas', 'The Parson and the Suckling Pig', 'As I was a-walking through the fields so gay' [fragment]; talks about his father's singing...

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