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Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A619r

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A619r

Creator(s): Green, Anthony E (1943-)

Site Location(s): Subject - Gawthorpe, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6443, -1.7181 )

Date(s): 1964-1966

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 104' 31".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414670

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Unedited Field Master tape. James Lyons sings [ 'Young Soldier Cut Down in His Prime'], [first line: One night as I sat by the fireside], [3 unidentified]; two children sing [unidentified]; Kathleen Lyons sings [unidentified fragment], 'McCaffery', [unidentified], 'Barbara Allen'; JL sings [first line: They are heroes, British heroes]; KL sings [first line: In Mountjoy jail one Monday morning]; JL sings [ 'Wild Colonial Boy']; KL sings [Wild Colonial Boy], 'Old Dick Drummond', [ 'Bonny Lad']; JL sings 'McCaffery', 'Old Roger' and 'Billy Boy', [2 unidentified, second a fragment]. [Tr. 6]


James and Kathleen Lyons continue singing; JL sings [first line: From Liverpool across the broad Atlantic]; KL sings [first line: Johnny Tar had a notion], [ 'Molly Branagan'], [ 'Wild Colonial Boy']; female [not KL] sings [unidentified], 'Robin a Bobbin', [ 'Old Church Clock']; children sing 'Three Wheels on My Wagon' and 'Down by the Station'; Marion McClean sings 'Sally Bought a Rabbit'; KL sings [unidentified]; JL sings 'McCaffery'; children sing [unidentified]; KL sings 'Patrick Sheehan' and [unidentified]. [Tr. 1]


Gladys Collie sings 'Leeds Old Church'. [Tr. 2]


James Lyons sings 'Botany Bay'. [Tr. 3]


Male sings two unidentified fragments. [Tr. 4]


Male relates an incident regarding the Evil Eye and its effect on farm animals (eighty years ago), the burning of an effigy as a cure; a white witch in Gawthorpe, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire; sings an unidentified fragment, and a wassailing song. [Tr. 5]


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