Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A421r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Lebberston, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.2266, -0.35017 )
Date(s): 12 December 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 35' 21".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414472
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about singing in the village pub, including on Christmas Eve; the disallowing of singing in pubs, especially in Scarborough; pubs in Filey where there used to be singing; farm songs and singing whilst working; songs learned; closeness of farm lads; the organisation of pub singing; sings and comments on 'My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl'; meeting future wife; women in pubs; Chapel and hymn singing at Filey; sings 'If You Were the Only Girl in the World'; fragment of a hymn [ 'At the Cross, At the Cross']; sings [ 'Tell Me the Old Old Story'], and attempts 'Christians Awake'; talks about forgetting/remembering old songs; sings [ 'Take Me Where the Lights are Rather Low']; talks about threshing work on farms, and travelling with the thresher in bad weather; describes the threshing machine; gardening; sings and comments on 'The Struggle and Strife You Find in This Life'.
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?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Variable recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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