Sound Recording, Suffolk
Description
Session recorded at the Everyman Folk Club, Leiston Sports Centre, on 12 July 1974. Bob Hart sings 'Comrades'[incomplete] and 'What a Funny Little Place to Have One'; Percy Webb sings 'Flash Company' and 'She's Proud and She's Beautiful'. [Tr. 1] Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape on the 13 July 1974; he and the collector discuss the session recorded in Leiston the day before; comments on other singers, including Percy Webb and Percy Ling, audience reaction; drink; compares pub singing at the Key in the past with now; changes after World War One; delivery of beer on drays from Sothall; pub singing in the 1920s/1930s - women's involvement; changes and the younger generation; pub singing in the 1950s/1960s - taken more seriously now than then; talks of Percy Ling and Jack Foreman. Talk of singers at the Crown pub; sings 'Break the News to Mother'; songs and memories; reference to the Boer War; attempts 'All Through the Night'[remembers the tune and some words]; sings 'After the Ball is Over'; frequency of singing; compares/contrasts himself with other singers; comments on performers at Leiston Folk Club and his choice of songs; sings 'A Ring for the Girl I Love'; comments on pitching a song. [Tr. 2]. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A336r. 7 of 79.
Metadata
| Identifier | kjpgxbw8 |
| IRN | 414386 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A335r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/kjpgxbw8 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Dunn, Ginette |
| Date | July 1974 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 63' 28". |