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Series 2: Sound Recordings (continued)
Subseries 2: England (continued)
AFC 2008/005: SR019, January 5-6, 1953 (continued)
Original ID # E-11. Haxey Hood pub (talk); 7 mins. Add Winsome to catalog card.
Winsome [???]: Pipe and tabor
Mr. Johnson on hood game
Discussion of hood in...
Whitehead home
AFC 2008/005: SR020
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-12. Haxey "Kings Arms" singing. Haxey Hood pub (talk and singing). #86. On reel: Haxey dub singing J. Ritchie. Processor's note: "the Haxey hood" is a traditional, annual event.
General pub noises
Talk about the "hood" - George asking questions, almost drowned in background noise
Farmer's boy - first verse no good wrong levels, electricity fails, etc.; chorus and rest of song o.k. lively
John Barleycorn - slow start, but generally good
Cannons or Drink old England dry - very slow start - generally o.k.
AFC 2008/005: SR021
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-13. Westaway, Bill (talk and singing). On reel: scrap of Westaway.
Bill Westaway talks to Jean Ritchie
About his horse-shoeing days in Exeter 65 years ago
About why he never remarried
About Dartmoor
About the "rough" and "smooth" song he knows
Candid trail of goings on while filming Westaway (interviewed by Jean Ritchie and Alan Lomax)
I've got a coat - sung by Bill Westaway for film (filmed by George Pickow and Douglas Kennedy)
More directions by Lomax for Westaway movie
AFC 2008/005: SR022
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-14. Westaway, Bill (talk and singing); Note: Tape is N.G. (static) until paper marker in the tape; E. 14; Sound track Westaway; empty or staticy noises up to paper. On reel: Bill Westaway soundtrack edited.
Clear conversation
Widdecombe Fair - very good - stream, bird songs
Conversation with Jean about professions
Conversation with Alan about professions
I've got a coat - one verse opens gate, goes away
Retake: I've got a coat - chorus only - says "Good Day sir" at end
AFC 2008/005: SR023
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-15. Lloyd, Bert; Isla Cameron; #89; copied. All but Tara Market and Riding down to Castlereagh.
Riding down to Castlereagh - Bert Lloyd and Isla - no good
Johnny Todd - Isla Cameron - two false starts, third take OK
Tara Market (not copied)
The Weavers 'gain you go - Isla Cameron - ok
AFC 2008/005: SR024
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-16. McColl, Ewan; Bert Lloyd. On reel: reel #2 Elektra.
Dowie dens of Yarrow - Ewan McColl
Achem Doon - Ewan McColl
Lover's ghost - Bert Lloyd
Cruel ship's captain - Bert Lloyd
Banks of sweet Dundee - Ewan McColl
AFC 2008/005: SR025, June 11, 1958
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-17. Bert Lloyd; Ewan McColl; Isla Cameron. Copies of "Bowline"; "Paddy Doyle" and "Cruel ships Captain" spliced onto beginning; copied "The Irish girl." On reel: #3E.
The Irish girl - Isla Cameron - good, voice a bit grainy - 1 minute 50 seconds
Haul on the bowline - Ewan McColl and Bert Lloyd; Paddy Doyle
Ranso - Bert Lloyd and Ewan MacColl
Long pause
Bonny boy is growin' - Ewan McColl
AFC 2008/005: SR026, January 31, 1954
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-18. Composite tape made up of other tapes with Isla Cameron on them - A.S.; composite copy; Isla Cameron. On reel: Copy #1 Isla Cameron.
Bushes and briars
Come all you fair and tender girls
Alternate documentation gives the title as "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies."
Marghellia du Keelyn
Queens Marys (Four Marys)
As he walked down by the river (sexy)
I cannot get to my love
My bonny lad
Sandgate nursery song
Can ye sew cushions
Laagon [sic] stream
Dance to your daddy
Lord Randall
Western wynd
Little wee croodin doo
Johnny Todd
The Weavers 'gin ye go
The Irish girl (room for two songs more)
AFC 2008/005: SR027
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-19. Isla Cameron; edited; copied JS.
Little wee croodin doo - fair with guitar
Little wee croodin doo (repeat) - bad
Little wee croodin doo - false start- then repeat - better
Johnny Todd - false start - sung terribly fast
Johnny Todd - bad - false start
Johnny Todd (repeat) - false start - (hopeless)
Johnny Todd - with whistling and guitar - starts on wrong note - sings over and over
Johnny Todd - with whistling and guitar - false start - a repeat
Johnny Todd - with whistling and guitar
AFC 2008/005: SR028
1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-20. Cameron, Isla; Edited (L.G.); copied LG. On reel: Isla Cameron reel #2.
Come all ye fair and tender girls (false start) - retake
Laagon [sic] stream - good
Kitty alone (version Frig and mouse) - false start
Kitty alone - lower key - (scratchy voice) - terrible
Kitty alone - repeat - also mediocre- bad
Dance to your daddy-o - false start
Dance to your daddy-o - false start
Lord Randall - stop clears throat- otherwise o.k
Western wynd - good
AFC 2008/005: SR029
1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-21. Copied (L.G.); Isla Cameron. On reel: 1⁄2 other half talk about [...].
Bushes and briars - Isla Cameron - good
Bushes and briars - Isla Cameron - tries higher key - not as good
Come all you fair and tender girls - two verses - good
Morghellia du Keerdu - fine tune, good
Outlandish knight- false start - no retake
Queens Marys - good
Black waterside - good, but too low
Black waterside - higher key, good off tune in one place
As he walked down to the river - false start
As he walked down to the river - good
My Bonny Lad - voice wavering
I cannot get to my love - good - lovely song about Tyne
The unquiet grave - spoken
Isla, Jean, and George talking till the end of the tape
AFC 2008/005: SR030
1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips ; 7 in.
Original ID # E-22; Cameron, Isla; copied (L.G.). On reel: Isla Cameron /first roll.
My bonny lad - false start - second good
Bushes and briars - fair
Sandgate nursing song - good, but could be better
Can ye sew cushions - good (after false start)
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