Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A461r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4877, -0.61498 ); Subject - Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom( 56.2047, -3.42138 ); Subject - Tranmire, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 54.4997, -0.839752 )
Date(s): 29 November 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 89' 07".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414512
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement, states date as 30 November]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about Yorkshire monologues; thoughts on poetry and painting and sad songs; sings 'Greenland Whale Fishers'; singing at a folk club with his son; thoughts on contemporary folk music and singers; sings 'October Song' [song by the Incredible String Band]; defining folk song - contemporary and traditional; the 1960s' folk song revival; reference to Colin Wharton's fieldwork for his Leeds M.A.; comments on folk clubs; favourite songs; sings 'I Once Loved a Lass'; method of learning songs; sings 'Boston Harbour'; JW's wife enters and KS asks her about singing with her husband; drink and its effect on singing; committees and folk clubs - reference Robin Hood's Bay and Redcar.
Talk of folk clubs continued; Kenneth Lovelace; singing/learning songs at school in Coxlodge; learning Geordie songs; sings 'Wor Nanny's a Mazer'; thoughts on dialect songs; talk of KS's song collecting, Cecil Sharp and Lucy Broadwood; Fred Jordan; observations on dress codes within the folk scene; folk club etiquette, audiences and participants; folk festivals - reference Whitby and Kinross. Continuation of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A460r, and concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A462r.
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?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Low recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Final part of Track Two affected by electrical interference/buzzing.
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