Bob & Jacqueline Patten English Folk Music Collection
Charlie Hill interview, part 06
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Type
sound
Duration
00:06:06
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
First sang in village concerts when he was a kid, sang ‘Widdicombe Fair’ [Roud Folk Song Index No. 137]. Grandfather sang at social evenings. He sang ‘The volunteer organist’, ‘The ship that never returned’ [Roud Folk Song Index No. 775] and ‘A boys best friend is his mother’ [Roud Folk Song Index No. 1756]. Grandfather used to farm at Perrymans Farm and would have a wash at the water pump after which he would start singing and step dancing on the cobbles to warm himself up. He had a ‘Head of hair like iron’. Family was from Lew Trenchard, grandmother’s father and brother worked for Baring-Gould. Anecdote about uncle Dick and the Doctor. Anecdotes about Tom Lang the naval pensioner, married his wife on two conditions ‘that ‘er kept herself and assisted ‘e a little’, the vicar who asked him if he’d thought about the next world to which he replayed ‘If the next bugger ain’t no better than this one I thought about chucking up the sponge’.
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