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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A100r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A100r

Creator(s): Wharton, Colin S

Site Location(s): Subject - North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1977, -1.39387 )

Date(s): 1960-1961

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 90' 20".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414150

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Edited compilation of field recordings of songs sung by a number of informants at locations in North Yorkshire. The collector announces the name of the song and singer, where known, before each song. Singer's name appears in square brackets below.


'The Bonny Hawthorn'[2 versions]; 'Down in the Meadows'; 'Betsy Baker'; 'Faithless Lover'; 'The Indian Lass'; 'Stowbrow'[2 versions, 2 singers]; 'Banks of the Sweet Dundee'; 'I Used to Court a Pretty Lass'; 'Boarding School Lasses'; 'Between Whitby'[first line]; 'Joe Muggins'; 'Spanish Lady'; 'Dark Eyed Sailor'; 'Maggie'; 'Gentle Annie'[2 versions, 2 singers]; 'The Rose of County Clare'; 'T' Owd Sow'; 'My Father Gave Me an Acre of Land'; 'Willie Went to Westerdale'; 'The Old Yow'; 'We're All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough'; 'Come All You Young Fellows'; 'Varmer Giles'; 'John Barleycorn'; 'The Country Lad'; 'The Merry Ploughboy'[2 renditions, 2 singers]; 'The Old Fox'[female singer]; 'The Mangy Fox'[sung by Mr. Wood]; 'Fine Huntin' Morn'[3 renditions, sung by Mr. Boyes, Mr. Benison and Mr. Hodgson]; 'Ullswater Hunting Song'/ 'Joe Bowman' [ Mr. Winter].


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9.5cm/sec.

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