Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A451r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Tranmire, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 54.4997, -0.839752 )
Date(s): 12 December 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 91' 24".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414502
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement] informant, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about his song repertoire and song sources; sings the chorus of 'Two Little Girls in Blue'; sings 'All Through the Night'; thoughts on what makes a good song - stories/words with meaning, importance of words and being able to hear them; the Beatles; what makes a good singer - voice, training; singing in a male voice choir; diction; bad singers; pub singing locally; the Black Bull pub in Ugthorpe - singing after quoits matches; George White and singing duets; favourite songs; sings 'Beautiful Dreamer'; BH's ear for pitch; singing outside, in Parish Hall and church; acoustics; sings 'I Dream of Jeannie'; favourite songwriter/arranger, Stephen Foster; young singers; audiences; Irish songs; use of a microphone; television; sings 'Jerusalem Jerusalem'; song repertoire; Country and Western music; Jim Reeves. [Tr. 4]
BH talks about old songs dying out; younger people at quoits club social events; revival of old songs; learning songs from his mother, helping her on the farm; remembering songs; singing in public; sings 'You Made Me Love You'; Mrs. Jagger, District Nurse and piano player; sings 'You May Not Be An Angel'; forgetting words; truth in songs; tailoring songs according to the audience; performance and bad local singers; singing in church/at weddings; sings 'Come Back to Erin', two unidentified songs, 'The Old Rustic Bridge', two unidentified songs; singing and choosing what to sing. [Tr. 1]
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Provenance
Collector announcement states informant's name as Bede Hodgins - tape box labelled Bede Hodgson.
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Low recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.
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