| Ref No | MS 4000/5/3/5/7/6 |
| Title | Recording of a performance, probably at the Grey Cock Folk Club, by a group from Dorset; followed by part of a recording of a BBC radio broadcast, 'All in a day's work': the third of a weekly series of 13 programmes about folklore and music, called 'Songs of the People', presented by A.L.Lloyd, based on BBC Sound Archive recordings. |
| Level | File |
| Date | December 1976 |
| Description | The contents of the recording are not as described on the tape box. Poor sound quality.
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 2.04 Description of track: Dorset group
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 3.51 Description of track: Dorset group 'The death of Cock Robin'
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 3.20 Description of track: Dorset group 'Brig Fair'
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 3.45 Description of track: Dorset group ?
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 4.34 Description of track: Dorset group Tune played on a bowed psaltery
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 3.05 Description of track: Dorset group 'Buttercup Joe'
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 4.00 Description of track: Dorset group Song to a Spanish tune
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 4.11 Description of track: Dorset group Medley of verses of popular songs
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 0.33 Description of track: Children's song
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 4.15 Description of track: ? Test of recording levels etc. and guitar instrumental
Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 0.29 Description of track: ? Guitar instrumental
Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 3.17 Description of track: ? 'Ronald Millhench'
Track 13: Duration (min/sec): 1.02 Description of track: Ewan MacColl Part of a song and actuality about miners' unity and the coalfields
Track 14: Duration (min/sec): 1.32 Description of track: A.L.Lloyd. Singer: Kate Nicholson of South Uist Programme on work and agricultural songs: a milking song
Track 15: 1.33 Ethiopian herdsmen Milking song
Track 16: Duration (min/sec): 2.02 Description of track: Salt workers From the saltworks in Trapani, Sicily
Track 17: Duration (min/sec): 1.23 Description of track: Salt worker From the saltworks in Panama
Track 18: Duration (min/sec): 1.39 Description of track: Ploughmen Song from ploughmen in Formosa
Track 19: Duration (min/sec): 2.33 Description of track: Ploughmen Song from ploughmen in Portugal
Track 20: Duration (min/sec): 1.47 Description of track: women Song from women to encourage the ploughmen in Peru
Track 21: Duration (min/sec): 3.13 Description of track: convict men Song from the Lambeth Penitentiary, Mississippi
Track 22: Duration (min/sec): 1.34 Description of track: Bulgarian women Song sung at the harvest in Macedonia
Track 23: Duration (min/sec): 3.24 Description of track: Frank Steel of Whitehills, Banffshire 'The Lothian Hairst'
Track 24: Duration (min/sec): 2.17 Description of track: Spinning song from Leon
Track 25: Duration (min/sec): 2.12 Description of track: Nan Macleod and others Waulking song from South Uist
Track 26: Duration (min/sec): 5.24 Description of track: ? Talk and song about the Rotunda in Birmingham
Total duration: (min/sec): 68.59 |
| Related Material | A recording of the full programme by A.L.Lloyd can be found on MS 4000/5/3/2/26 |
| Physical Description | Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number NF222S0210574
Original tape:
Size: 5" tape reel
Gauge: 1/4" tape (0.625cm)
Speed: 3.75ips (9.5cm/s);
EQ Curve used: IEC
Track configuration: Half Track Mono
Dubbing Date: 06/03 |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |