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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A416r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A416r

Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick

Site Location(s): Subject - Lebberston, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.2266, -0.35017 )

Date(s): 19 March 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 92' 25".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414467

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], 'Farmer's Boy' and [first line: 'Come with me to the races']; interest in horse racing; singing evenings in the saddle room of an unidentified farm; cycling; village cricket; describes the farming year and the jobs undertaken, including ploughing, sowing, harvest; working hours; crops and crop rotation; changes in farming; sings 'Granny's Song at Twilight'; remembering songs; sings [unidentified]; sings 'Springtime in the Rockies', 'Sonny Boy' and 'Wild Rover', remembered from singing in pubs; sings [unidentified].


Talks about music hall songs; a book of traditional songs from the Scarborough area; remembering songs; sings two songs [unidentified]; family; sings [unidentified], [Laughing Song] learned from a Scarborough fisherman, and 'Red Sails in the Sunset'; beach performers at Filey; talks about the song 'Farmer's Boy'; recites jokes; women in pubs; prostitutes; week's holiday at Martinmas; pub singing; fighting amongst farm lads; farm at Boythorpe and changes since he worked there; talks of sleeping/accommodation arrangements on the farm, money taken for workers' keep; spending wages - drink, clothes and other expenses.


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

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