Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A617r
Creator(s): Green, Anthony E (1943-)
Site Location(s): Subject - West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7, -1.58333 )
Date(s): 1964-1966
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 92' 54".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414668
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Unedited Field Master tape, comprising sound recordings of a number of unidentified singers and instrumentalists.
Male sings 'Robin a Bobbin', [unidentified], 'The Volunteer Organist', [5 unidentified]. [Tr. 4]
[Gap 2 minutes]
Male recorder [?whistle] player plays tunes, including 'The Ring Your Mother Wore', 'Alice Where Art Thou?', 'Pretty Little Gee-Gee', [unidentified], 'America', 'Comrades', 'Silent Night', 'O Come All Ye Faithful', 'Left Like a Dog', 'One Night I was Passing' [also called 'Under the Shawl']; attempts 'Father Dear Father'. Player identifies each tune after playing it. [Tr. 5]
Male sings two songs (unaccompanied). The first is about a mining disaster, and the first line is There's a home on the banks of the Tyne; the second begins There are heroes, British heroes. [Tr. 6]
Mrs. Robinson and Anne Taylor[with piano accompaniment] sing 'Miner's Dream of Home' [fragment], 'Barnsley Anthem' [part]; Mr. Robinson sings 'Barnsley Anthem' [fragment]. [Tr. 7]
Harold Robinson sings 'Barnsley Anthem'; a mining disaster song [first line: Once more sad news we hear]; [first line: We all love our native country]; [first line: We thought our ship would surrender]; [first line: In the prisoner's dock one morning].
Male sings [first line: Returning from the club one night], [first line: For many years the North express], [first line: Mr. McAdam and Co.], [first line: One night as I sat by my fireside], [first line: When the hills and dales are all covered in white] [fragment], [first line: I was brought up in London town]. [Tr. 8]
Herbert Machon sings [first line: There are heroes, British heroes]; [2 unidentified], 'The Old Lady, Her Ass and the Cock'. [Tr. 9]
Tom Daniel sings [with banjo accompaniment] 'Long Tom, the Old Yorkshire Gamekeeper', 'Poverty Knock', [unidentified] - incomplete (tape ends). [Tr. 10]
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Physical and technical conditions
4.75cm/sec [Tr. 4]; 9.5cm/sec. Several splices near the start of Track One.
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