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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A101r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A101r

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: 94' 19".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414151

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.


'The Horn of the Hunter's Now Silent'[ Mr. Winter]; 'Fylingdales Parish'[2 renditions, Reg Pickering and Fred Grayson]; 'Valentine Day'[ Reg Pickering]; 'Drink, Puppy, Drink'[ Mr. Benison]; Hunting chorus, from Bilsdale, introduced by the singer; Hunting chorus [ Mr. Winter]; 'The Song of the Glaisdale Harriers'[ Mr. Weatherill ( Frank Weatherill?); 'Three Jolly Fishermen'[ Mr. Weatherill] ( Frank Weatherill?); 'The Ship that Never Returned'[2 renditions, Mr. Wood and Fred Grayson, the latter accompanied on the accordion]; 'The Sailor's Farewell'[2 renditions, Mr. Woodand Harry Grayson]; 'The Anchor's Weighed'[ Mr. Wood]; 'Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth'[ Mr. Wood]; 'The Sailor's Grave'[ Mr. Wood]; 'Leeds' Old Church'[ Mr. Watson]; 'The Ignorant Loon'[ Mr. Cruickshank, Aberdeenshire]; 'Timothy Briggs the Barber'[ Mr. Wood]; 'Sucking Pig'[ Mr. Hodgson, whose father stole a sheep for Christmas dinner, and wrote the song]. [Tr. 1, AC040]


Second track on the tape continues with more songs, with announcements by the collector.


'Johnny Sands'[ Mr. White]; 'The Old Woman in Yorkshire'[ Mr. Wood]; 'The Crocodile'[ Mr. Swales]; 'The Derby Ram'[ Mr. Swales]; 'King Arthur and His Sons'[ Mr. Hodgson]; 'The Baby's Name'[ Mr. Pennock, with third verse remembered by Mr. Newton]; 'The Page Boy'[ Mr. Watson]; 'Jim Crow's a Dandy'[fragment remembered by Ralph Noble]; 'Little Fiddle'[fragment from Mr. Pennock]; 'The Tailor's Breeches'[ Mr. Wood]; 'Two Little Maids'[ Mr. Pennock]; 'The Cliffs of Old Whitby'[ Mr. Wood]; 'Goathland Plough Stots'[ Fred Grayson]; 'Battle of Trafalgar'[ Mr. Wood]; 'The Battle of Waterloo'[ Mr. Wood]; 'Spencer the Rover'[ Mr. Wood]; 'The Bride's Good Health'[ Mr. Hodgson]; 'Dick Turpin's Ride to York'[ Mr. Wood]; 'The Soldier's Tear'[ Mr. Wood]; 'The Soldier's Return'[ Mr. Wood]. [Tr. 1, AC041]


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