Sound Recording, Berkshire

Description

Dave Blagrove, recorded in Reading; sings [with ?banjo/?ukulele accompaniment] 'Sandy Lane', the Oxford boatmen's songs 'The Ballad of Tom Beechey' and 'Les Morton's Navy'; 'Maggie May', 'Farmer's Boy', 'Just as the Tide was Flowing' [fragment], 'Old Towler' [fragment], 'The Bitch Fox', 'There was an Old Farmer in Berkshire', 'The Free and Happy Barley' [fragment], 'Many a mile I've travelled', 'The Prize-Winning Hereford Bull', 'Georgie's Lost His Alley', 'The Wren' [children's rhyme], 'Where Be Thucky Blackbird?', 'I Came From Cumnor', 'The Newbury Custard Pie', 'The Scouring of the White Horse' [fragment], 'The Berkshire Tragedy', 'The Lobster' [fragment] and 'Boating Song'. [Tr. 4]. This recording is followed by a multi-track recording of a radio programme on Percy Grainger, with a piano, singer and speaker simultaneously audible on another track. The contents of neither track is clearly discernible. Not copied onto AC221. Track Two of this tape contains recordings, possibly copied from commercial LP records, of an unidentified female singer [with guitar] singing a number of folk songs [some in French and German], an unidentified male pop group [?1960s] and an unidentified female singer [?1960s]. [Trs. 5-7]. No details of these recordings appear in John Baldwin's thesis. 9 of 20.

Metadata

Identifier	by9bg7lq
IRN	414535
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A484r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/by9bg7lq
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Baldwin, John R
Date	1967
Size and Medium	1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 91' 53".

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