| Ref No | MS 4000/5/2/2/5 |
| Title | Sound recording of actuality inserts (song and A L Lloyd's 'Epic Survivals' ) used in
WEA Lecture 13, 14 and 15. |
| Level | File |
| Date | 29 January 1965; 05 February 1965; 12 February 1965 |
| Description | CD 1 of 2: Tracks 1-3 (song) WEA Lecture 13; Tracks 4-10 (song) WEA Lecture 14
CD 2 of 2: Track 1 (song) WEA Lecture 14; Tracks 1-8 (A L Lloyd 'Epic Survivals') WEA Lecture 15
CD-R 1 of 2
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 4.03 Description of track: Ewan MacColl (singing) Peggy Seeger (banjo) Singing 'Johnnie Andrews'
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 5.04 Description of track: Cecilia Costello of Birmingham (c.1951) Singing 'The Cruel Mother' her father's version
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 5.11 Description of track: Ewan MacColl (c1960) Singing 'The Cruel Mother' his aunt's version Mrs Maggie Logan of Corsham, Wiltshire
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 1.49 Description of track: Jean Ritchie Singing 'Old Bangum'
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 4.10 Description of track: Peggy Seeger (singing and banjo) Singing 'Old Bangum'
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 2.20 Description of track: A L Lloyd introducing Bulgarian Epic
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 2.41 Description of track: A L Lloyd introducing Rumanian Epic 'Iovan Iorgovan'
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 1.39 Description of track: Peggy Seeger (singing and banjo) Singing two verse reprise of 'Old Bangum'
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 5.56 Description of track: Unnamed male Singing ['The tale of the children of a troubled world' first line] (crying in introduction)
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 3.48 Description of track: Unnamed male Singing ['O Sir I was a Hunting When' first line]
Total duration: (min/sec): 36.41
CD-R 2 of 2
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 6.13 Description of track: Unnamed males Singing 'John Barleycorn';
followed by A L Lloyd introducing 'Epic Survivals' on Balkan Outlawry (continued in Tracks 2-3); introduces next track
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 3.52 Description of track: Rumanian gypsy Singing a South Rumanian outlaw ballad 'Miu Haiducal';introduces next track
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 1.46 Description of track: Unnamed female singer Singing a Klepht ballad on the Bulgarian heroine 'Fair Rada'
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 2.48 Description of track: Aunt Molly Jackson [American] Talking about the 'Birth of Robin Hood'
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 6.05 Description of track: John Greenway Singing verse of 'Robin Hood'
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 3.28 Description of track: A L Lloyd Singing 'Robin Hood and the Tanner'
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 4.22 Description of track: Joan Baez Singing 'Pretty Boy Floyd' (by Woody Guthrie)
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 8.09 Description of track: Aunt Molly Jackson [American] Talking about her experience of shortage of food and 'holding up the commisary'
Total duration: (min/sec): 36.43 |
| Related Material | See recordings at MS 4000/5/3/2 of A L Lloyd
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: 2 x CD-R serial numbers
CD 1 of 2: NF220 T090 0574
CD 2 of 2: NF220 T090 0474
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 |