Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A279r
Creator(s): Ashton, John
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )
Date(s): [1974/1975]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 65' 25".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414329
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Harry Slack, recorded in his home in Leeds; sings 'The Rocks of Orme', followed by brief conversation about the song and informant's singing style; sings [unidentified]; talks of his home in Ireland, family, education, working on the land and turf selling when not at school; living in Yorkshire (Bradford, Doncaster and Leeds) and Lincolnshire (Gainsborough); family, wife and children; retirement plans; dancing and singing at gatherings in family home; cups for dancing; singing at the Regent pub.
Sings [unidentified] and discusses date of song; sings [unidentified]; talks about airs and song tunes; sings 'The Banks of Sweet Dundee'; songs published in the newspaper 'Ireland's Own'; sings [unidentified]; [At this point in the tape the recording cuts to fragments of songs sung by male singers [?in the Regent pub], including 'The Rocks of Orme'. This section lasts c. 4 minutes, and then the interview with Harry Slack continues. On the AC copy this has been edited out and recorded as Tr. 3.]; discussion of the study of singing, radio programme on folk music, English traditional songs; recollections of singing in another Leeds pub; thoughts on returning home to Ireland, pub music, Irish traditions in England and Ireland; storytelling. [Tr. 2]
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Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec.
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