Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Description

Lenny Savage, recorded at home in Snape on the 1 October 1974; talks about the musician Jimmy Meadows [LS's brother-in-law]; Mrs. Savage's childhood on a dairy farm; the singer Velvet Brightwell [father of Jumbo Brightwell]; learning the song 'The Foggy Dew' from a [?BBC] recording on which Velvet Brightwell sings; Benjamin Britten's version of 'The Foggy Dew'; Bob Hart's version of 'The Foggy Dew'; Bob Hart and old songs in print, in newspapers and on postcards; learning songs; maternal grandfather's songs; Whitsun Frolic; sing, say, or pay; introduction of new songs by people working away - sea songs, maltsters at Burton upon Trent; women in pubs and the women's room; describes the room arrangement in the Ship Inn, Blaxhall; song ownership; Geoff Ling and George Ling singing 'The Green Bushes'; Cyril Poacher singing eighteen songs for a commercial record; Dick Woolnough and Bunt Woolnough and their repertoires; singing in a concert party, The Blaxhall Rovers, with Wicketts Richardson, Percy Richardson and Frank Reeve; LS on singing style. [Tr. 2] Lenny Savage, recorded at home on 30 October 1974, talks about singers in the Ship Inn, Blaxhall; the singing licence; the Ling family and their relationship to LS; pub games at the Ship Inn (e.g. crib) before singing; singers' repertoires at the Ship; song ownership; Priscilla Savage's songs (LS's mother), including 'Grief O Grief', and her singing to him as a child; describes father's job as a shepherd; children's clothes; the Ling family; biographical details; war experience and postings; pub singing; gambling for cigarettes. [Tr. 3] 50 of 79.

Metadata

Identifier c6zr29lq
IRN 414429
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A378r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/c6zr29lq
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Dunn, Ginette
Date October 1974
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 75' 07".

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