Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A418r
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: 95' 16".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414469
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about his singing; sings 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough', and talks about the subject of the song (ploughman's day); farmers and foremen; recites a song written about a local farm; sings [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy']; importance of singing the correct words; singing with musical accompaniment; singing at a local, unidentified [?Bark End] pub, and others whilst farming; marriage (wife from Whitby); singing - locations and occasions; favourite songs; audiences; modern singers and songs (reference to the Seekers and the Beatles); singing alone; learning to play the mouth organ; plays 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' and 'The Struggle and Strife You Find in This Life'; sings 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles'; plays 'The Volunteer Organist'; daughter's singing; listening to singers when younger; father's songs; singing on the farm; melodeons; Christmas carols. [Tr. 1]
Talks about the weather and winters when working on the farm; changes in farming, and describes the working day of the past; winter work on the farm described; crops grown; leisure time since retirement; mechanisation of farming methods; working with farm horses; singing evenings in farm saddle room; working conditions; work clothes; food (describes weekly menu); changes in Scarborough - picture houses, playhouses, modern shops; employment on the roads from 1922 onwards - job of lengthman, repairing holes/cracks, grass verges, road sweeping; pension; comments on changes in money and value of money, modern prices; lameness due to horse kick; sings [unidentified] fragment and 'I Believe'; honkytonk room at the ?Bark End pub (singing); Ken Dodd's singing and songs; sings 'Tears' and 'So Still Runs the River' . [Tr. 1]. Continuation of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A417r, and concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A419r.
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?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Low recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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