Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Description

Nancy Thornton, recorded at home in Fairford, sings 'I've Travelled Many a Mile'. [Tr. 3] Albert Agg, recorded at home in Siddington, sings 'Buttercup Joe', 'The Old Sow', 'A Bunch of Green Holly and Ivy', 'The Orange and the Blue', 'Jim the Carter's Lad', 'The Fly be on the Turmut', 'Thank God I'm a Gentleman Still', 'Farmer Higgs', 'Old Johnny Oakeye', 'Farmer's Boy', 'Water is the Drink for Me'; recitation of dialect conversation from the Eastleach area, followed by stories, anecdotes, sayings and tongue twisters. [Tr. 4] Mr. R. G. Cook, recorded at home in Purton, sings 'Fair Nancy'; sheep stealing anecdote; sings 'Tom and the Parson', 'Come My Pretty Maiden', 'I Know Where He Is', 'I Don't Want to be a Soldier', 'Patsy Burke', 'Up and Down the Brickwork'; recites a Bonfire Night rhyme; sings 'The Long Long Trail'. [Tr. 5] Bill Dore, recorded at home in Leafield, sings 'Jolly Large' [with piano accompaniment], 'The End of My Old Cigar', 'Needle Cases' [fragment], 'Jolly Old Pals', 'If I Were a Blackbird' [fragment], 'Buttercup Joe'; plays two morris dance tunes on the piano [one identified as 'Molly Oxford'. These songs and tunes sung/played by Bill Dore are duplicated at faster playback speed on tape A479r.[Tr. 1] Florence White, recorded at home in Kidlington, sings and plays the piano. Sings 'When I Was Single'and 'Christchurch Bells'; plays the morris dance tune and announces the dance steps to 'Jockey to the Fair' [ Ascott-under-Wychwood version], and the dance tunes 'Molly (Old Mother) Oxford' and ? 'Princess Royal'. [Tr. 2] Mr. A. Green, recorded at home in Yarnton in 1969, sings 'I Took My Girl to a Ball Last Night', 'I did a very silly thing the day I took a wife', 'I bought a little story book from a baron in the Strand'; talks about learning songs by ear; sings 'A Different Girl Again', 'The Bold Grenadier' and 'Farmer's Boy'. [Tr. 3] 3 of 20.

Metadata

Identifier rwfs9rhv
IRN 414529
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A478r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/rwfs9rhv
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Baldwin, John R
Date 1966-1969
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 52' 52".

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