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Total number of records: 77

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture77
folk music77
english language - dialects71
community life34
persons30
occupations26
manners and customs23
play23
agriculture17
folk dancing17

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette32
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)15
Baldwin, John R12
Ling, Percy (1906-1982)8
Webb, Percy8
Sullivan, Keith Frederick7
Green, Anthony E (1943-)6
Poacher, Cyril (1910-1999)6
Holy Jim5
Jimmy5

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Wharton, Colin S

1960-1961

Edited compilation of field recordings of songs sung by a number of informants at locations in North Yorkshire. The collector announces the name of the song and singer, where known, before each song. ...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

31 October 1979

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play outside the Holly Bush pub, Little Leigh; [collector announcement]. [Tr. 1] Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play in the Maypole pub...

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Sound Recording, [Norfolk]

Summers, Keith

[1971]

Very poor quality copy of a recording of the singer and accordion player Bob Roberts, possibly made in Norwich at the Norwich Folk Festival. He sings (accompanied and unaccompanied), and also tells hu...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

June 1975

Singing at the Gardener's Arms Folk Club, Ipswich, on the 19 June 1975. Bob Hart sings 'White Wings' and 'What a Funny Little Place to Have One'; Dave Burland sings 'Bitter Withy' , 'Banks of the Bann...

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Sound Recordings, London and Kent

Wetton, Anne Lindsey

July-August 1973

Compilation of field recordings made in Abbey Wood, Charlton, Plumstead and Swanley. Six informants sing a selection of popular love songs, including 'Dolly Gray', 'The Old Rustic Bridge', 'The Rose o...

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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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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Sullivan, Keith Frederick

26 November 1976

Singing as part of the Ugthorpe Quoits Club Quoits Supper, recorded in the Black Bull pub, Ugthorpe. Conclusion of session which starts on LAVC/SRE/A454r. Male sings 'The Rose of Tralee' and 'Will You...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

31 October 1978

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play outside the Holly Bush pub, Little Leigh. Incomplete recording - starts with fragment of the Doctor's speech, and continues with Dairy Doubt. [Tr. 1...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Ashton, John

[1974/1975]

Harry Slack, recorded at home in Leeds, sings 'Little Mother of Mine', 'Bonny Irish Boy'; singing style (adornment); sings 'The Shannon Golden'; learning songs; sings 'The Woman from Wexford'; the sto...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1975

George Bennett[?recorded at home in Snape in 1975]. His ?wife/?sister is also present. Sings 'Little Jimmy Tiddler', ''Mid Shot and Shell' [words indistinct], 'I Have a Saviour'; information on 'Littl...

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Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Baldwin, John R

1969

Mrs. I. M. Brown and Mrs. Cotmore [?sisters], recorded in Oxford in 1969. Recitation of the words to 'I had a Little Donkey', and the monologues 'Sally and Her Sweetheart', and 'Little Boy and the Err...

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Sound Recordings, Cheshire

Harrop, Peter K

31 October 1977

Antrobus Soul-Cakers perform their soul-caking play, outside the Holly Bush pub, Little Leigh. Very low recording level. Traffic noise obscures the speakers' voices on occasion. [Tr. 1] Antrobus Sou...

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