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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A417r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A417r

Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick

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

Date(s): 11 December 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 88' 14".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414468

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; recitation about two Yorkshire lads in London; recitation [ 'Mr. Jackson Had an Ass'], learned from local people, about Lebberston villagers - talks about those who wrote it and those referred to in it; TS's biographical details (born in Cayton), places lived, employment, living in Lebberston; favourite songs; sings 'I Believe', 'So Still Runs the River' and 'Tears' [ Ken Dodd songs]; learning and remembering songs; sings [unidentified]; hearing songs on radio/records; remembering songs and concentration when singing; sings fragment of unidentified song; types of song sung (comic, old fashioned); favourite songs; sings 'Down Where the Swanee River Flows'; stories/meaning in songs; songs/music in youth; pub singing; tries to remember comic song; singing games in the pub as a youngster; sings 'Be Kind to Your Parents'; pub singing.


Sings [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], and gives story behind the song; sings [unidentified]; sings 'The Little Red Herring'; learning songs from records; singing at the Bull Inn, Gristhorpe; changes in pubs and the effect of juke boxes; sings 'Red Sails in the Sunset' and 'Granny's Song at Twilight'; song preferences; song performance and using a microphone; sings [unidentified]; audiences and young people's songs; describes his daily routine; sings part of [first line: 'Come with me to the races']; sings [unidentified] and 'When You and I Were Seventeen'. Continues on tapes LAVC/SRE/A418r and LAVC/SRE/A419r.


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

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