Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A621r
Creator(s): Green, Anthony E (1943-)
Site Location(s): Subject - Batley, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7029, -1.6337 ); Subject - Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6908, -1.62907 ); Subject - Ossett, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6798, -1.58006 )
Date(s): 1964-1966
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 125' 00".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414672
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
1 - Mining Monologue
Description
Unedited Field Master tape.
Female sings [2 unidentified], recorded in a ?pub/?social club. [Tr. 1]
Male [possibly James Lyons] sings [ 'Come All You Young Fellows'], 'Down by the Tanyard Side', [unidentified], 'Patrick Sheehan', 'Robin a Bobbin', [Wassail song]; [first line: There was a lady lived in Leeds]; [unidentified]; ? Kathleen Lyons sings [unidentified], 'Old Skibereen' and [ 'She Moved Through the Fair']; children sing 'Robin a Bobbin'; James Lyons sings [2 unidentified], [ 'She Moved Through the Fair'], [unidentified]. [Tr. 2]
Male recites [unidentified], re. the christening of McGuiness. [Tr. 3]
Female sings 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' [part], a Wassail song [part], 'The Derby Tup' [fragment], 'Miner's Dream of Home' [fragment], 'The Derby Tup' and [ 'Poor Old Horse'] [fragment]. [Tr. 4]
Male sings [unidentified], with banjo accompaniment. [Tr. 5]
Tom Collinson of Ossett recites four monologues. The first two relate to a pack of playing cards, and are entitled 'Game of Life' and 'The Soldier's Prayerbook'; the third is entitled [? 'Pit Ponies' St. Leger']; the final monologue concerns mining and miners, and begins I sat at my ease by the cosy fire. [Tr. 6]
Male recites a monologue entitled 'Short of Coal'. [Tr. 7]
Female sings 'Barbary Ellen', 'Red Haired Sally' [singer explains the story, and sings in Gaelic]. [Tr. 8]
James Lyons relates a story about a Russian performing bear in Batley and Dewsbury (c. 1910s); a clinkin' toad (watch); sings a song about the Titanic; Kathleen Lyons sings [2 unidentified], 'Patrick Sheehan'; JL sings [unidentified] and [ 'Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime'], [2 unidentified]; talks about his uncle coal mining in America; la-lahs an unidentified tune. [Tr. 9]
Male sings [ 'Humbug Buyers'] [banjo accompaniment]. [Tr. 10]
5 of 7.
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