Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A430r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Goathland, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4, -0.71954 ); Subject - Hutton-le-Hole, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.2833, -0.9167 )
Date(s): 2 April 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 89' 23".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414481
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Raymond Hayes, recorded at home in Hutton-le-Hole; talks about songwriting, singing and playing at dances in the local school hall; playing the banjo and ukulele; sings and plays [unidentified]; sings and plays a song about a group of archaeologists working locally in the 1960s; sings and plays 'Swanee River', and two other unidentified songs; talks about genuine folk songs; playing the ukulele; plays and sings [ 'Wait 'Til the Clouds Roll By'], a popular song in the 1920s/1930s; plays and sings an Arthur French song, 'Won't You Buy My Pretty Wares'; [ 'The Sweetest Girl I Ever Saw'], variation on 'Sipping Cider Through a Straw'; instrumental group RH played with [shows photographs]; playing for dances during World War Two; thoughts on decline in old time dances; plays and sings 'Farmer's Boy' [incomplete on the ukulele, followed by full song on the piano]; talk of unidentified harvest song, known from late 1920s; ? Harvest Festival; reference to further contacts
for KS. [Tr. 2]
Sings [ 'The Green Leaves are Falling'] and [ 'King Henry was King James' Son'], both referred to as Kissing Ring songs; conversation regarding the recollections of older village inhabitants; Goathland [Plough Play] and darking (performers blacking faces); riding the stang - explains the custom of shaming wife beaters in the past; Goathland Plough Stots; popularity of [sword] dances in the 1930s; radio/television and the decline of folk plays; history of folk plays, with reference to articles in 'Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society'; Kissing Ring; thoughts on the better organisation of communal entertainment and the decline of folk customs; articles and transcripts of folk plays collected by RH; corpse roads [?compare coffin trails]; Bill Cowley; Icelandic story of a corpse road; RH's retirement, working life, interest in archaeology, working with his father as a photographer; reads out dialect recitation, The Lyke Wake Dirge, with comments on other dirges; custom of putting a
silver coin in the mouth of a corpse; funeral drink/food customs locally (in Farndale); the break up of the Farndale estate, the dispersal of tenants and the decline in traditional customs. [Tr. 1]
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Some distortion of speaker's voice.
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