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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A457r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A457r

Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick

Site Location(s): Subject - Ugthorpe, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4903, -0.77531 )

Date(s): 27 November 1976

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 69' 59".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414508

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Collector announcement]; Phil Hales, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing at the Quoits Supper; song repertoire; audience; barn dances and songs; musicals; learning songs; favourite songs/music (Al Jolson); mother's singing and songs; sings fragment of 'Give Me Your Smile'; more on his mother; agricultural song parodies - sings fragment; singing and performance; sings part of 'Threshing Machine' and 'An Old Man Came Courting'; quoits club socials and other village socials - women's involvement, singing; reference to a quoits social at Sleights; musical abilities; anecdote; alcohol; comments on self; meeting his wife; dancing; young people and quoit playing/singing - continuity; local singers and song ownership; comments on singing voices. [Tr. 1]


Talk [?of John White]; the Black Bull pub; persuading people to sing; prizewinners and singing; pub as social centre; community activities; religion locally; dances and local dance band; father's politics; school headmaster - anecdotes; comments on young people. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A456r.


50 of 68.

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?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec.

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