Sound Recordings, [West Yorkshire]

Description

Female sings 'Barbary Ellen' and 'Red Haired Sally' [second in Gaelic]. [Tr. 2]


James Lyons relates a story about a Russian performing bear in Batley and Dewsbury (c. 1910s); and a clinkin' toad (watch); Kathleen Lyons sings 'Patrick Sheehan'; JL sings 'Come All You Young Fellows', 'Patrick Sheehan', 'Robin a Bobbin' and [first line: There was a lady lived in Leeds]. [Tr. 3]


Bill Hill sings 'Starch Soap and Candles', 'Dance Round the Maypole', 'I am a Driver' and 'Greenhill Farm'. [Tr. 4]


Lily Hill sings 'As I Was Walking Down Old Green Lane'. [Tr. 5]


Jack Banham sings 'Hole in the Elephant's Bottom'. [Tr. 6]


Vic Moorhouse sings 'The Barley Mow'. [Tr. 7]


Peter Wright sings 'A Collier Lad'. [Tr. 8]


Jack Banham sings 'The Lobster'. [Tr. 9]


Walter Wheeler recites the monologue 'Dangerous Dan the Jew', and sings 'Bless This House'. [Tr. 10]


George Jakes sings 'I'll Never Forget the Day'. [Tr. 11]


Percy Binns sings 'Sarah'. [Tr. 12]


Joe Lindley sings 'Little White Mouse'. [Tr. 13]


Savile Ramsden sings 'Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea'. [Tr. 14]


James Lyons sings 'Lord Nelson and Lord Howe' , '[Napoleon]', 'Bonny Bunch of Roses', 'O Josephine My Josephine' and 'I Was Sold that Afternoon'. [Tr. 15]


Tom Daniel sings 'Old Jim Slack', with banjo accompaniment. [Tr. 16]


Mr. Robinson, Mrs. Robinson and Anne Taylor sing 'Barnsley Anthem'; Harold Robinson sings 'Barnsley Anthem'. [Tr. 17]


James Lyons sings 'Barnsley Anthem' [2 attempts] and 'Mr. McAdam and Co.' [Tr. 18]


Herbert Machon sings 'The Old Lady Her Ass and the Cock'. [Tr. 19]


Tom Daniel sings 'Long Tom the Yorkshire Gamekeeper' and 'Poverty Knock', with banjo accompaniment. [Tr. 20]


Kathleen Lyons sings 'The Knocking Up Song' [part], 'Barbara Allen', 'Old Dick Drummond', 'Bonny Lad'; James Lyons sings 'McCaffery', 'Old Roger'and 'Billy Boy'. [Tr. 21]


Marion McClean sings 'Old Dick Drummond' and 'Sally Bought a Rabbit'. [Tr. 22]


Gladys Collie sings 'Leeds Old Church'. [Tr. 23]


James Lyons sings 'Botany Bay'. [Tr. 24]

Provenance

Compilation of songs copied from field master tapes LAVC/SRE/A617r -A623r.

Access and usage

Reproduction

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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec.

Related material

Tony Green's brief note on this compilation, in relation to the original (deteriorating) recordings, is held in file LAVC/SRE/ARI/039.


Tony Green also undertook some fieldwork in South Yorkshire. Field notes [ms. and typed] from visits to The Bridge pub in Penistone, and the Red Lion in Thorpe Hesley [November and December 1970 respectively], to record the local Christmas carolling tradition, are held in file LAVC/SRE/ARI/036. This relates to original tape numbers B74 and B76 [not traced].

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