Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire

Description

Bill Whiting, recorded at home in Longcot in 1967; sings 'Rosemary Lane', 'The Little Thatched Cottage', 'The Knife in the Window', 'The Old Dog', 'He's gone where the good ponies go' [fragment], 'The Blind Boy', 'So Does Father', 'The Song of the Thrush', 'The Volunteer Organist', 'The Bold Grenadier' [fragment], 'The Way of the World', 'The Wren', 'I was but a boy' [fragment], 'Dick Turpin the Cobbler', 'I've been a woman in my time' [fragment], 'Mother dear I love my father' [fragment], 'The Prickle Holly Bush', 'Emily' [fragment], 'The Royal Albion', 'If I Were a Blackbird', 'The Bold Grenadier', 'Joe Muggins', 'So Does Father', 'The Soldier and the Sailor' [fragment], 'Malone', 'The Husband and His Wife', 'The Jolly Herring' [fragment], 'Green Brooms' [fragment], 'Madge', 'Old Pal'. [Tr. 5] Mr. R. G. Cook, recorded at home in Purton in 1967; sings 'Ten Little Nigger Boys'; recites a story called 'The Snow Baby'/ 'Snowflower'; sings 'Good Old Salisbury Plain'; recites a rhyme 'Billy Fairplay', a riddle about a blacksmith shoeing a horse, and stories concerning the sharing out of cows, and potato planting. [Tr. 6] Mrs. I. M. Brown and Mrs. Cotmore [?sisters], recorded in Oxford in 1969; sing 'Work work', 'Trouble in Our Native Land' [fragment], 'Break the News to Mother' [fragment]; talk of learning songs, the Russell family, morris dancing and mummers (costume); sing 'After the Ball is Over' [fragment] and 'I Had a Donkey' [fragment]. [Tr. 7] Mr. A. Green, recorded at home in Yarnton in 1969; sings 'Farmer's Boy'. [Tr. 1] Mrs. J. Timms, recorded at home in Horspath in 1969; sings 'In the Gloaming' and 'Miner's Dream of Home'. [Tr. 2] Mr. T. Maycock and Mr. T. J. Miller, recorded in Charlton-on-Otmoor in 1969. Mr. Maycock sings 'The Drummer Boy', 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', 'I Come from the Country', 'A Man's Too Old at Forty', 'The Old Church Choir'; Mr. Miller sings 'The Old-Fashioned House'; talk of a mummers' play, with the recitation of some lines; songs and singing; Mr. Maycock sings 'The Wiggle-Waggle of His Kilt'; Mr. Miller sings 'Buy a Broom'. [Tr. 3] 8 of 20.

Metadata

Identifier	x2q4pqgb
IRN	414534
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A483r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/x2q4pqgb
Collection(s)	Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category	Archive
Parent Record	Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s)	Baldwin, John R
Date	1967-1969
Size and Medium	1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 94' 54".

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