Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A439r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Ugthorpe, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4903, -0.77531 )
Date(s): 8 September 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 75' 54".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414490
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Will White, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing; living at the Black Bull pub; pub singing; biographical details; running the pub with his wife; also mixed farming - crops, livestock, size of farm; first farm job, aged thirteen - pay and conditions, being hired/kept on; building work during wartime; hirings; mining, steelworks and pay compared with farm wages; farm work 1917-1918; Catholicism - changes, teachings, mother's work as a schoolteacher, fasting before Mass, relaxation of teachings; local Catholics; Irish farm workers locally; WW attempting to join the Army in 1917/1918; sings fragments of a number of unidentified songs; importance of practise; choral singing and changes in voice; singing with the family when younger.
WW [?or his wife] plays the piano and sings two unidentified songs; talks about local concerts; singing at work (milking cows); discusses the song 'The Vacant Chair', other songs/tunes; farming songs - 'Farmer's Boy', sings fragment of 'All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough'; remembering songs; recites first verse to 'Farmer's Boy'; talks of social changes - clothing/fashion, pubs; pub singing; sings grandfather's song, 'Betsy Baker', and talks about him singing.
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Distortion, especially during the piano playing.
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