Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A413r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Lebberston, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.2266, -0.35017 )
Date(s): 11 February 1975
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 58' 31".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414464
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings [unidentified]; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; talks about and sings his version of 'My Grandfather's Clock'; sings 'When I Was a Jolly Young Ploughboy'; talks about his education and the extent of his song repertoire; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough'; recites a monologue, 'Mr. Jackson Had an Ass'; the first gramophone he saw; recites a piece by two Yorkshire comedians, re. visiting London; sings 'Farmer's Boy'; songs known from farming days; musical evenings with other farm workers in the 1920s; father's singing; farm work and living arrangements; sings 'The Volunteer Organist', 'Granny's Song at Twilight' and a version of 'The Wild Rover'; his family's musical abilities; preparing to sing [? 'Cavalier'] when tape ends.
Talk of a song book owned by an unidentified woman; sings an unidentified song, learned from a Scarborough fisherman; sings 'The Little Red Herring'; recites words of a poem/song learned at school; talks about school and homes; general conversation.
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Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec.
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