Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A414r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Lebberston, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.2266, -0.35017 )
Date(s): 18 March 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 102' 52".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414465
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife', and 'My Grandfather's Clock' [parody]; singing in pubs as a teenager; sings [unidentified] and [? 'Herring's the King of the Sea']; learning songs in pubs at Gristhorpe, Weaverthorpe and Rudston; family singers and musicians; plays 'The Volunteer Organist' on the mouth organ; sings 'The Volunteer Organist', [? 'I am a Sad Cavalier O'], 'I Believe' and 'Rivers'; pub singing and singing licences; singers who used to sing in the local pub; sings 'Tears'; learning songs; recites words from an unidentified song and sings a fragment of the tune; TS's siblings; women in pubs.
Local pubs, singing, opening hours, atmosphere, beer, smoking (clay pipes), twist tobacco, drinks and measures; working life, including farm work; Martinmas Hiring Fair described; refers to Hirings at Hunmanby, Driffield and Bridlington; fastening penny to secure services; describes the process of hiring at a fair; tramp thrashing; agricultural labourers' wages; farm hierarchy and employees described; strikes by agricultural labourers for reduction in working hours; jobs as milk lad, 3rd and 2nd lad (plough team) and waggoner; changes in corn production. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A415r.
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?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Tape runs fast. Some print-through audible. Level and speed adjusted on AC copy.
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