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Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A468r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A468r

Creator(s): Sullivan, Keith Frederick

Site Location(s): Subject - Tranmire, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 54.4997, -0.839752 )

Date(s): 5 January 1977

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 82' 45".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414519

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

[Collector announcement]; Jim Wilkinson and Mike Hodgson [son of Bede Hodgson], recorded at JW's house in Tranmire. JW sings 'MacPherson's Rant'; MH talks about his father singing, and learning 'Take My Boots Off When I Die'; sings 'The Old Rocking Chair' (learned from a record) and 'Take My Boots Off When I Die' (JW joins in the chorus), learned from his father; JW sings 'My Old Kentucky Home'; discuss Bede Hodgson's song repertoire; MH sings 'Anna Marie' ( Jim Reeves song); talk about MH's brother (singer/songwriter); JW's song repertoire; JW sings part of [? 'Haulin in the Bowlin'] and fragment of [? 'Bury Me Beneath the Willow'].


MH sings an unidentified Jim Reeves song; JW sings 'Barbara Allen' (learned from a version recorded by Joan Baez); JW's thoughts on good/bad singers; sings Woody Guthrie's version of 'Golden Vanity'; talk of songs JW has written about work and work colleagues, and Whitby Motor Club; JW sings fragment of 'Wor Nanny's a Mazer', and explains the story, set to his own tune; JW sings the song again, to the right tune.


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?Copy tape. 9.5cm/sec. Very high recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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