Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A429r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Castleton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4626, -0.94156 )
Date(s): 29 March 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 93' 14".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414480
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; David Hartley, recorded at home in Castleton[wife also present]; gives biographical details; talks about his wife; father's tenant farm; exemption from service during World War One; work as a rate collector in the parish; wages and money; entertainment; transport; plays 'Oh Genevieve' on the piano [distortion due to high recording level]; plays and sings fragment of same song again; plays 'John Peel' melody; plays and sings 'The Place Where the Old Horse Died'and [ 'Maggie']; learning songs, pub get togethers; quoits matches; unaccompanied (part) singing; sings part of 'Sailor Jack'; remembering songs; sings melody to 'Farmer's Boy', and plays the piano; recites words to 'Guisborough Fair'; thoughts on older songs and their preservation.
Health, and effect on his singing; born 1886; schooling in Westerdale; employment as game keeper on local estate - describes duties; family; taking on his father's farm - talks about the farming year, the weather, involvement of women, crops, farm animals; thoughts on the state of the country.
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Still much distortion.
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