Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
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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