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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A408r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A408r

Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick

Site Location(s): Subject - Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4877, -0.61498 )

Date(s): February 1975

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 43' 57".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414459

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Collector announcement]; recording made at Whitby Folk Club, Whitby; male announcer informs audience of KS's presence and his tape recording the session; male sings [? 'Beneath the Bonnie Hawthorn'], 'Willie Went to Westerdale', [unidentified]; female sings three unidentified songs, one of which is announced as being from Robin Hood's Bay; Keith Sullivan addresses the audience regarding his collecting of folk songs in North Yorkshire, and asks for help in suggesting suitable informants; KS announces and sings 'Edward' and 'Mercedes Benz' [audience join in with refrains and last verse]; male sings 'Lord of the Dance'; female sings [? 'Johnny'], 'To Hear the Nightingale Sing'and 'High Germany' [juke box music audible in the background]; male sings 'The Alabama' and [? 'Greenland Whale Fishers'] - audience joins with both.


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Physical and technical conditions

?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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