Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A410r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Castleton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4626, -0.94156 )
Date(s): 2 April 1975
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 52' 02".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414461
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the songs he knows, and the problems of writing them down in Yorkshire dialect; his song, 'Muckspreader', and songwriting; sings 'Muckspreader' and 'The Girl with Orange Hair'; GE's farm work; singing in the Station Hotel [now The Eskdale pub]; the collector's research; family; his farm and electricity supplies; songwriting, and the choice of subject; the recording of his songs by an unidentified recordist; sings unidentified song about an angler named John Willie [one of a series of seventeen songs written by GE]; further talk of KS's research, and the instruments he plays; GE's biographical details.
Talk of singing and singers in the Castleton area; pub singing [?at The Eskdale]; GE's musical preferences; songwriting - ideas and tune selection.
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Low/variable recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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