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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A436r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A436r

Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick

Site Location(s): Subject - Rosedale Abbey, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.3534, -0.8874 )

Date(s): 2 April 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 30' 11".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414487

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Sandy Kelly, recorded at home in Rosedale Abbey with his wife; plays a 1927 recording of William McEwan singing 'The Old Rugged Cross' and [ 'We are Travelling Home to Heaven']; discusses other songs and plays another recording [unidentified]; biographical details; recites the words to an unidentified song; pub singing and the popularity of 'The Old Rugged Cross'; Army experience; talks of poverty, changes in living standards and the reflection of poverty in certain songs; good music; SK's time in India during ?World War One; the Dalesmen Male Voice Choir (group of twenty Dalesmen singers); old song re. morphine and cocaine - modern day drug problems and the relevance of the song.


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?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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