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Sound Recording, Norfolk
Day, Michael Patrick
24 April 1975
[Collector announcement]; Walter Pardon, recorded in Knapton; sings 'Died for Love', [4 unidentified], 'The Dark Eyed Sailor', 'Van Diemen's Land', [2 unidentified], [ 'Jack Tar on Shore'], [unidentif...
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...
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...
Transvestite Disguise in the English Folk Song Tradition
Barnes, Glynis E C
1972
M.A. study of transvestite disguise (male or female, actively performed or suggested) occurring in folk songs collected in England, North America and Australia, and following a thematic analysis by th...
A Popular Singing Tradition of an Area of South-East London
Wetton, Anne Lindsey
1974
A collection of popular songs recorded in 1973/1974 from informants living in and around the Bexleyheath area of London. Text and (some) tune transcriptions are presented, with comments from the colle...
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...
Folk Songs of Northumberland and Durham
Atchison, Maureen
1964
A collection of folk songs recorded from four informants (including a miner, and a mother and daughter) living in Northumberland and Durham. The text and tune transcription for each song are provided....
Sound Recording, Manchester
Dunn, Ginette
26 April 1974
Fred Jordan, singing at the Bay Horse pub in Manchester. Sings 'The Bonny Bunch of Roses', 'The False Bride', 'The Galway Shawl', 'We Shepherds are the Best of Men', 'The Outlandish Knight', 'Jones's ...
Sound Recording, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
16 November 1974
Singing at the George and Dragon pub in Farnham [conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A395r]. General conversation about singing and (favourite) songs; [ James Knights] sings 'I Love My...
The Folk Songs of Bedfordshire
Webber, M R
1966
A study of songs collected from three adult informants living in Bedfordshire, and from children at a Luton Junior School.
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...
The Passing of a Community and its Songs: A Study Based on the Unpublished Manuscript Collection of Songs from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire, made by Janet Heatley Blunt
Pickering, Michael J
1978
Ph.D. thesis concerned primarily with the social background to traditional English song, as found in the manuscript collection made by Miss Janet Blunt in Adderbury, North Oxfordshire. The Introductio...