Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A652r
Creator(s): Varley, Peter C; Rosenblum, Howard
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 ); Subject - Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5605, -0.03225 )
Date(s): 1971
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 58' 25".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414703
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Singers recorded in Club Memphis in Leeds [date not known]; Sylvia Needham sings an unidentified riddle song; Bob Williamson sings parodies of children's songs, and tells some jokes; John Rennard sings 'The Pretty Drummer Boy' and 'Banks of Sweet Primroses'; Christy Moore sings 'Follow Me Down to Carlow'; The Taverners sing 'The Derby Ram'; Robin Dransfield and Barry Dransfield sing 'The Huntsman's Chorus'; Bill Price-Morley sings a number of children's songs; The Yetties sing 'Rounding the Horn'.
[Unidentified] sings 'Up to the Rigs of London Town'; Derek Elliott and Dorothy Elliott sing [ 'Lord Reynolds']; Dave Anderson plays 'The Campbells are Coming' on the Scots pipes; The Yetties sing 'Towersey Fair' [recorded by Howard Rosenblum]; Andy Seagrove plays Irish dance tunes on the [?hammered] dulcimer [recorded by Howard Rosenblum]. [Tr. 3]
Singers recorded at the Cleethorpes Folk Festival in 1971; The Broadside sing 'The Bunch of Bonny Green Ivy' and 'Oats and Beans and Barley Grows'; The Songwainers sing [unidentified]; The Galley sing 'The Fair at Macclesfield'. [Tr. 4]
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. Very low recording level. Possibly a copy of an original recording. Level adjusted on AC copy.
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