| Ref No | MS 4000/5/2/2/1 |
| Title | Sound recording of actuality inserts ('Ewan Instrumental Examples') used in WEA Lectures 1 |
| Level | File |
| Date | 26 September 1964 |
| Description | Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 2.45 Description of track: Unnamed female Singing ['Queen Jane lay in labour for six days or more' first line]
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 1.21 Description of track: [Ewan MacColl] Singing ['The Braes of Yarrow']
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 2.53 Description of track: Harry Cox Singing 'Foggy Dew'
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 1.55 Description of track: [Mrs Cecilia Costello] Singing ['I Wish I Wish']
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 1.52 Description of track: [Sam Larner] Singing 'Henry Martin'
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 3.54 Description of track: Sam Larner Talking about sailing and singing [extract from 'Singing The Fishing' radio ballad]
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 1.49 Description of track: Unnamed male and female Live singing of ['Johnnie Lad']
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 1.34 Description of track: Unnamed male and others Live singing of ['Johnnie Lad'] (different version to Track 7)
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 3.05 Description of track: Unnamed male and female Singing and story including mention of Auchterarder, Perthshire (Betsy Miller, mother of Ewan MacColl came from Auchterarder, Perthshire)
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 2.30 Description of track: Choir Singing
Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 3.03 Description of track: Unnamed male Singing ['Now Joseph was an old man' first line]
Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 2.46 Description of track: [Peggy Seeger]; [Ewan MacColl] Singing ['Now Joseph was an old man' first line] as in Track 11; followed by [Ewan MacColl] singing extract of ['Derry Down']
Track 13: Duration (min/sec): 0.59 Description of track: [Peggy Seeger] Speech and singing
Track 14: Duration (min/sec): 1.06 Description of track: Unnamed male Singing ['My name is John George Oxbridge' first line]
Track 15: Duration (min/sec): 1.52 Description of track: [Louise Hooper] Singing 'Geordie'
Track 16: Duration (min/sec): 2.02 Description of track: Harry Cox Singing 'Foggy Dew' and talking about learning Sankey Hymns at home
Track 17: Duration (min/sec): 1.00 Description of track: Harry Cox Singing ['Dark is the night and strong the wind is blowing' first line]
Track 18: Duration (min/sec): 2.32 Description of track: Sam Larner Singing and speech to Charles Parker about fishing [extract from 'Singing The Fishing' radio ballad]
Track 19: Duration (min/sec): 1.01 Description of track: Sam Larner Singing 'Mignionette' [extract from 'Singing The Fishing' radio ballad]
Track 20: Duration (min/sec): 2.07 Description of track: Unnamed group of males Singing 'Husbandman and Serving Man'
Track 21: Duration (min/sec): 1.57 Description of track: Mrs Cecilia Costello; Sam Larner Singing 'The Jew's Garden'; followed by Sam Larner talking about press gangs
Track 22: Duration (min/sec): 15.50 Description of track: Sam Larner Singing 'Butter and Cheese and All' [c12 mins of silence at end of track]
Total duration: (min/sec): 59.53 |
| Related Material | See recordings at MS 4000/5/1/1/11, MS 4000/5/1/11/5-7;9-10;16, MS 4000/5/2/2/4,7 and MS 4000/5/2/3/1-2 of Sam Larner;
see recordings at MS 4000/5/1/1 and MS 4000/5/2/3/1-2,4 of Harry Cox
see CD recording of the third radio ballad 'Singing The Fishing' and accompanying written documentation at MS 4000/2/78
See written documentation on lectures by Charles Parker for the WEA and the University of Birmingham Extra-Mural Department 1964-1977 at MS 4000/1/3/2. |
| Physical Description | Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number CF129 K007 5374
Original tape:
Size: 7" tape reel
Gauge: 1/4" tape (0.625cm)
Speed: 7.5ips (19cm/s);
EQ Curve used: IEC
Track configuration: Half Track Mono
Dubbing Date: 12/02 |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |