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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A077

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A077

Creator(s): Cooke, Jane A

Site Location(s): Subject - Birdsedge, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5659, -1.69727 )

Date(s): 8 Nov 1979 - 16 Nov 1979

Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 87' 18".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414127

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Children recorded in the playground of Birdsedge First School, Birdsedge, on the 8 November 1979; talking about and demonstrating the games and associated rhymes known to them. They give examples of ball-bouncing games, skipping rhymes and describe some skipping movements [girls]. [Tr. 1]


Boys discuss skipping rhymes, football, Army, tig and fighting; girls give skipping rhymes and clapping/ball game examples ( 'Down on One Knee'), a singing game ( 'When Suzy was a Baby'), a clapping game ( 'My father Went to Sea, Sea, Sea'), and some jokes. Recorded 9 November 1979. [Recording level varies throughout] [Tr. 2]


Children describe skipping games, clapping rhymes ( 'My father Went to Sea, Sea, Sea'), sing variation on the song 'Ten in the Bed', action songs 'Arka, Arka' and 'Chinese Restaurant', tell jokes and give the clapping game '3, 6, 9'. Recorded 15 November 1979. [Tr. 3]


Children give the clapping game 'Tinkerbell', skipping rhyme 'All in Together', the ring game 'Wind Blows High', and sing 'Ally, Ally-O'. Recorded 16 November 1979. [Tr. 4]


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