Sound Recording, Suffolk

Description

James Smith, recorded at home in Snape; talks about the song 'The Cobbler' and the use of props; sings the song, learned/sung in the Crown pub, Snape, around fifty years ago; singing in the Golden Key pub; other Blaxhall singers who sang 'The Cobbler'; other pub activities - quoits, dominoes, cards and darts; family; pubs and women's attitudes; pub singing; pay day; quoits matches; biographical details; sings 'Meggy', 'What did the Poor Little Moth' and 'Mucking About the Garden'; the gramophone and records; the wireless; women in pubs; the Crown pub, Snape. [Tr. 4] James Smith sings 'Old Dun Cow' [two attempts], learned from Maurice Woods; talks about learning songs; sings 'Peggy O' Neal'; singing at Theberton and Pettistree; sings 'Last Night at My Sister's'; comments on singers, including Bob Hart and Sid Messenger; favourite songs; sings 'Straight Banana'; singing with accordion accompaniment; biographical details - schooling, farm work, work at Snape Maltings (with dressing machines), wages, barley drying process explained; sings 'Yes We Have No Bananas' and 'Old Farmer's Servant'; comments on the song repertoires of Bob Scarce and Bob Hart. [Tr. 1] 70 of 79.

Metadata

Identifier gbmf8jn8
IRN 414449
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A398r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gbmf8jn8
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Dunn, Ginette
Date 21 June 1975
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 76' 24".

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