Sound Recording, Suffolk

Description

Ruby Ling, recorded at home in Snape; sings 'Hymns My Mother Sang', 'Yes, We Have No Bananas', 'The Melody that Makes You Mine', 'Carolina Moon', 'Tie a String Around Your Finger', 'Yes I Wonder, Yes I Wonder'; talks about singing with a friend, working in service in Hampstead (London), from the age of fourteen; wages; family; living in Aldeburgh; marriage; sings 'If You Were the Only Girl in the World', 'My Home in Tennessee', 'Sleepy Valley', 'All Alone by the Telephone', 'All the Best Looking Girls', 'My Blue Heaven', 'Sweethearts Will Never Grow Old'. Sings 'Mother Kelly's Doorstep', 'Baby's Prayer', 'Paradise' , 'I Was Born in Tipperary'; learning songs from her brother-in-law, c. fifty years ago; sings 'The Little Old Church in the Valley', 'City of Laughter', 'The Spanish Cavalier', 'In a Little Garden Suburb', 'When They Sound the Last All Clear', 'The White Cliffs of Dover', 'I Haven't Said Thanks' and 'When the Fields are White with Daisies'. Continuation of tape LAVC/SRE/A363r. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A365r. 36 of 79.

Metadata

Identifier b17gbll5
IRN 414415
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A364r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/b17gbll5
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Dunn, Ginette
Date 9 September 1974
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 62' 22".

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