Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A464r
Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick
Site Location(s): Subject - Tranmire, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 54.4997, -0.839752 )
Date(s): 1 January 1977
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 91' 25".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414515
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about his song repertoire; sings and discusses 'Hills of Ardmorn'; sings 'Jute Mill Song'; talks about forgetting words, improvisation, singing in folk clubs, song ownership and change; sings 'Thousands or More'and first verse of 'Wild Rover'; sings complete 'Wild Rover' and 'Sweet Nightingale', with his daughter Rachel Wilkinson; talks about Dalehouse Folk Club (at the Fox and Hounds pub); singing and local pubs; sings 'Two Nightingales'; song repertoire. [Tr. 2]
Talk of JW's song repertoire continues [wife, daughter and son also present]; sings 'An Old Man' and 'Durham Gaol'; talk of the poet and songwriter, Tommy Armstrong; sings 'Blaydon Races', and talks about the writer George Ridley; sings 'Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinnie'; talks about singing as a child with his family on Christmas Day night; sings 'Dark as a Dungeon'; family's musical talents; sings 'Spinning Wheel' [two incomplete attempts]. [Tr. 1]. Concludes on tape LAVC/SRE/A465r.
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Physical and technical conditions
?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Very high recording level. Adjusted on AC copy, but still much distortion.
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