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Dunn, Ginette26
Sullivan, Keith Frederick20
Russell, Ian9
Green, Anthony E (1943-)8
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Baldwin, John R6
Weatherill, Frank (1892-1974)5
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Folk Song: General

1959-1981

This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...

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Village Song and Culture: A Study Based on the Blunt Collection of Song from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

1981

This file contains a complete photocopy of a typed draft, with ms. corrections, of Pickering's study of the folk songs of Adderbury, as published by Croom Helm , 1982, [viii], 281 leaves. The book was...

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Recordings of Yorkshire Songs, Music and Customs at Cecil Sharp House, London

English Folk Dance and Song Society

[1964]

This file contains a typed list of recordings held by the English Folk Dance and Song Society at their headquarters, Cecil Sharp House, London. The recordings cover the period ca. 1940-1964, and inclu...

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Sound Recording, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male Maori informant, recorded in Gisborne, New Zealand; talks about black magic, song composition, laments, song collection, memorisation, inheritance of song, Maori ancestors and Maori god, teaching...

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Sound Recording, Nigeria

Olayemi, Val

[1968-1978]

Orin Ibeji (Songs in Praise of Twins). Woman and child sing two unidentified songs; woman and child[ren] (new informants) sings three unidentified songs. The original recordings were made in Ibadan in...

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Sound Recording, New Zealand

Dunn, Ginette

[1973]

Male Maori informant, recorded in Gisborne, New Zealand; talks about a female tribal composer, black magic, Maori laments, oral tradition, songs and singing competitions, Maori language, types of song...

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Sound Recording, Greater Manchester

Edwards, Janet E

[1967]

The collector introduces and sings four songs associated with May Day celebrations in Salford. These include a Molly Dancers' song, which the collector states as having been sung in the city in the 19...

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Sound Recording, Redcar and Cleveland

Sullivan, Keith Frederick; Green, Anthony E (1943-)

29 November 1975

William Hart, recorded at home in Wiltonby Tony Green [?daughter and son-in-law, Ray Bennett and Mrs. Ray Bennett, also present]. WH sings 'Guisborough Fair' and 'I'd Never Tell a Lie This Day', lea...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

19 March 1976

Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to t...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

October 1974

Lenny Savage, recorded at home in Snape on the 1 October 1974; talks about the musician Jimmy Meadows [LS's brother-in-law]; Mrs. Savage's childhood on a dairy farm; the singer Velvet Brightwell [fath...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

16 April 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, relates biographical details, including working on the land and at sea; his experience of World War One (wounded 1916); homecoming and work at the Snape Maltings; ...

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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

27 November 1976

[Collector announcement]; Phil Hales, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing at the Quoits Supper; song repertoire; audience; barn dances and songs; musicals; learning songs; favourite song...

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