Sound Recordings, Wiltshire and Oxfordshire

Description

Mr. J. Morgan, recorded at home in South Marston; sings 'Bold Sir Rylas', 'The Parson and the Suckling Pig', 'As I was a-walking through the fields so gay' [fragment]; talks about his father's singing; biographical details; sings 'The Jolly Tinker Man' [fragment], 'The Banks of the Sweet Dundee' [fragment]; talks about his father's work as a ?dealer, his own farmwork; joining the Army and serving in France during World War One - describes gas attacks and conditions in the trenches; farming at South Marston - describes the farm, livestock and associated jobs, cattle breeds, markets and drovers; pub singing; sings 'When I Wore a Tunic' [parody, fragment] and 'In the Sun-Baked Trenches' [parody, to the tune of 'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine'], recites lines from 'Jim the Carter's Lad' [fragment]; talk of Fred Stevens [local singer]; informant's father having his songs collected by a Mr. Williams [ Alfred Williams], his song knowledge; informant's grandfather; gypsies; great-grandfather; sings 'The Cherry Tree Carol' and 'May I Come Home Again?' [fragment]. [Tr. 1] George Powell, recorded in his home in Wigginton; sings 'The Plough Boy's Song'. [Tr. 2] Mrs. B. Green, recorded at home in Bampton; sings 'When Shall We Get Married John?', recites lines from 'The Wild Man of Borneo', sings 'Where are you going to my pretty maid?'; discusses the song 'The Boy and Parson Brown' - la las the tune [fragment], sung by her father and Shady Wiltshire; discusses the monologue 'Mrs. Brown's First Railway Visit', and then recites it; talk of another monologue, known by Mrs. Green's mother; recollects and sings a fragment of 'Oh No John'. [Tr. 3] Mrs. F. E. Palmer, recorded at home in Witney ; sings 'After the Ball', 'The Volunteer Organist', 'Oh what has changed you?', 'The Mistletoe Bough', 'You're Going to Leave the Old Folks Jim', 'Farmer's Boy', and parody of, involving animal noises, 'The Old Sow' [fragment], 'Old King Cole', 'I Pity Myself I Do', 'Needle Cases' [fragment], 'An S-O-N-G', 'Thy Face I Never See' [fragment]; recites the monologue, 'Young Williams'; sings 'Sweet Teddy O' Neil', 'Buttercup Joe', 'The Warwickshire R.H.A.', 'A Boy's Best Friend is His Mother' and 'I Can't Get My Winkle Out'. [Tr. 4]. 12 of 20.

Metadata

Identifier	p27z8mpn
IRN	414538
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A487r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/p27z8mpn
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Baldwin, John R
Date	1969
Size and Medium	1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 126' 53".

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