Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A463r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Tranmire, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 54.4997, -0.839752 )
Date(s): 30 November 1976
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 79' 49".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414514
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; sings 'Waters of Tyne', and discusses learning it and other Geordie songs; sings/hums fragment of 'Buy Broom Besoms'; sings 'Bobby and Bett Nicholson' by Tommy Armstrong, and comments on the songs he writes; sings 'Cat Pie'; comments on Fred Jordan and Bob Hart; diction in singing, remembering words, staying in tune; sings 'Trimdon Grange', written by Tommy Armstrong about a mining explosion; JW's interest in traditional song; also blues songs - sings 'Hong Kong Blues' and [unidentified]; learning Hoagy Carmichael songs from gramophone recordings; liking for Country and Western songs; singing with a regional accent; sings 'I'm a Rover, Seldom Sober'; talks about his parents/brother singing.
Further talk of his family and its New Year traditions; sings 'Lambton Worm', 'Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinnie' and 'Cushy Butterfield'; talks about pub sings at the Black Bull in Ugthorpe; sings [? 'The Bonny Hawthorn']; [silence as the collector takes a photograph of JW]; talk of JW's wife's singing.
56 of 68.
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Variable recording level. Generally low level, due to placement of microphone during the interview. Adjusted on AC copy.
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