Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Description

George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?morris] dancing in pubs at Kempsford; sings 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow' [fragment] - recites the last verse; recites and then sings 'Three Maidens to Milking Did Go', sung by his father Harry Dawes and uncle Eli; sings 'The Little Chickens in the Garden'; talks about enlisting in the Wiltshire Regiment, army songs and sings a fragment of 'Roll on when we go on furlough'; sings the chorus to 'Jim the Carter's Lad', fragment of 'The Rifles have taken my true love away', recites part of 'The Babes in the Wood', tries to recall 'Oh hark, oh hark said Johnson', and sings part of 'The Outlandish Knight'; talks about his sister and her husband. Mr. D. Higgs, recorded in Meysey Hampton; sings 'Benjamin Mills'; refers to his father whistle playing and tap dancing; sings 'The Rabbit', sung by his grandfather, and talks about his grandfather's playing in a local dance band; talks of local socials and singing/recitations, changes in the village community, village characters, including a water diviner who discovered a paraffin well. [Tr. 3] Mr. Higgs sings 'The Three Jolly Huntsmen'; and talks about his grandfather's song repertoire and the village of Steventon [?Oxfordshire] where he lived. [Tr. 1] Mr. E. T. Cook and his wife, recorded at home in Oxford. Mr. Cook sings 'Nutting Girl'; talks about his grandfather, the places Mr. Cook has lived and his occupations; Mrs. E. T. Cook talks about the Plough Jags (traditional drama) in Owston Ferry, Isle of Axholme - describes the costumes worn; reference to the Haxey Hood, the legend of Lady Mowbray losing her hood, and the inter-village game now played every year on January 6th; Mr. Cook sings 'The Pride of Kaldear' [fragment], 'As I Walked Out One May Morning', 'What do you think of that?', 'Time Gentlemen Please', 'It is but a little golden ring' [fragment], 'Sailing Merrily Home', 'Don't Send my Boy to Prison' [fragment] and 'An Absent-Minded Beggar' [sung from a sheet sold in aid of the Boer War]. [Tr. 2] 15 of 20.

Metadata

Identifier	xvql73v2
IRN	414541
Class Mark	LAVC/SRE/A490r
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xvql73v2
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: 65' 50".

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