Sound Recording, [Location Unknown]
Description
Herbert Pelham-Jones talks about joke-telling: the jokes he tells, why, when and where; reference to the Jokers' Club and Hampshire Club; gives examples of stories, inc. tongue twisters (crude); jokes told are over fifty years old; examples of jokes made up by HPJ; talks about involvement in the Crazy Gang in 1924 (then known as Young Bloods of Variety); member of Westcliff Operatic and Dramatic Society; joke material; jokes on television; obscene jokes, double entendre; 'cabaret' in a Polperro (Cornwall) restaurant. [Tr. 4] World War Two anecdote - liberating a French village; hoaxes whilst a member of the Leigh-on-Sea Swimming Club; [At this point in the recording HPJ is audible relating his liberation anecdote once again, simultaneously with his talk of hoaxes. This parallel recording continues to the end of the tape.]; hoaxes - Sheikh opening a fair, swimming the Atlantic; playing rugby in Sidmouth; bathing all year round; Sidmouth in November; as a pub owner in Southsea, HPJ claiming to buy Spithead Fort; talks of inspection by General Eisenhower. [Tr. 5] Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A273r. 1 of 2.
Metadata
| Identifier | y6jz9kt7 |
| IRN | 414321 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A272r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/y6jz9kt7 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Shaw, Carol |
| Date | [1973/1974] |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 55' 47". |