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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...
Upper Thames Valley Folk Songs Tape Content Lists
Baldwin, John R
1966-1969
Typed table of contents lists for tapes relating to a thesis on the folk songs of the Upper Thames. Lists the contents of two tapes, noting song titles and conversation topics. Also included are ms. n...
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...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1966
Harry Lay, recorded at home in Bampton; talks about playing the character Father Christmas in a mummers' play performed in Bampton each year; recites lines from the play, and goes on to talk about his...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire
Baldwin, John R
1968-1969
Mrs. D. Brooks and Mr. Coombs [?brother and sister], recorded in Shipton-under-Wychwood in 1968. Mrs. Brooks describes her husband playing a horse game. [Tr. 1] Mr. Coombs sings 'The Old Leather Bri...
Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1968-1969
Session recorded at Swindon Folksingers' Club in 1968 [?possibly a regional English Folk Dance and Song Society- organised Christmas event]; accordion tune; unidentified male sings [? 'Can You Dance t...
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...
Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
Baldwin, John R
1969
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/?...
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...
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...
Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Berkshire
Baldwin, John R
1966-1969
Compilation of folk songs and conversation, selected from fieldwork recordings LAVC/SRE/A476r - A493r. The majority of the (male and female) singers were recorded in their own homes, singing unaccompa...