Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A411r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Castleton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4626, -0.94156 )
Date(s): 6 January 1977
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 67' 22".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414462
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 sang on previous recording sessions; copyright in songs; making (amateur) tape recordings; pub singing and the singers involved; songwriting; accent singers; Tony Capstick's radio programme and folk songs/singers heard; what makes a good singer - importance of relating a song, pronunciation/accent, singing songs that suit a voice; musical accompaniment; bad singing; performance; singing in the Eskdale Moor pub, c. 1940s - early 1970s; repertoire; family; female/male audiences - differences; stories in the songs GE writes; modern songs and singing. [Tr. 4]
Talk of KS's tape recording equipment; GE sings two unidentified songs; songwriting/remembering songs; sings unidentified song, and talks about another; exaggeration of stories in song (e.g. version of 'Muckspreader' by the Yetties); song tunes, songwriting and the problem of effectively writing down songs in Yorkshire dialect; sings unidentified song [ John Willie Christmas song, one of a series of seventeen written by GE]; comments/general conversation regarding songs and singing. [Tr. 1]
4 of 68.
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?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Low recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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