Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A419r
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: 87' 13".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414470
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about singing at the Plough pub [?in Lebberston], changes to the pub, the importance of holiday camps to pub custom, the pub when TS was younger; Lebberston village; sings [ 'There's None Like Susie-Anna'], 'My Happiness' [ 'Evening Shadows']; attempts 'How Much is that Dog in the Window?'; sings three unidentified songs; parents - singing, social life, tin whistle playing; sings 'Oh Genevieve', part of 'When Irish Eyes are Smiling'; talks about Irish songs; Sings 'When Your Hair has Turned to Silver'; granny songs; sings 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary'; remembering songs; sings part of 'While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night'; Christmas carols, singing from a book/paper; hymn singing; remembering songs; choosing songs to sing; musicians/singers [?at the Plough].
Sings 'Now is the Hour' and 'I Wish that I was a Canary'; talks about Scarborough, roads and the North and East Ridings borders; sings 'That Old Fashioned Mother of Mine'; TS's dog; living alone; family, including great-grandchildren; marriage; employment - first job, farm work, East and North Riding [?Council], NALGO; first farm worked at Boythorpe - lists other farms worked at in the region; work at NALGO; education; sings two unidentified songs; sings ''Til We Meet Again', and a fragment of 'My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl'; sings a Gracie Fields' song, fragment of 'When Irish Eyes are Smiling' and 'My Island Laddie'. Conclusion of interview which starts on tapes LAVC/SRE/A417r and LAVC/SRE/A418r.
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?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Variable recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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