Bob & Jacqueline Patten English Folk Music Collection
Charlie Hill interview, part 05
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Type
sound
Duration
00:04:24
Cultures
English
Shelf mark
1CDR0013690 (copy of C1033/300)
Recording date
1995-03-04
Is part of (Collection)
Bob and Jacqueline Patten Collection
Recording locations
Drewsteignton, Devon, England, UK
Interviewees
Hill, Charlie (speaker, male)
Interviewers
Patten, Bob (speaker, male), Patten, Jacqueline (speaker, female)
Recordist
Patten, Bob
Abstract
‘I’ve been lucky in so far as I’ve got, in that I met up with the right people at the right time, I met up with people who were interested in me ’. Downs Festival. Meeting Peta Webb ‘a very, very nice person, she’s a very sincere person and she’s a nice singer’ who booked him for the Empress. ‘Danny Quinn and all those lads’. ‘The Traditional [club?]….got the best pay I’d ever had in my life’. Do at Cecil Sharp House compered by Bob Davenport where they were ‘singing all day’. Keith Summers. ‘All those older generation they were all individuals, all individual characters, all very very interesting characters’. Meeting Willie Scott. Would spend hours talking with Fred Jordan. Anecdote about the time when he and Fred were watching a folk group and Fred said ‘If I had my way I’d ram that bloody guitar down his neck’.
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