Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Tony Green announcement]; Jackie Beresford, recorded at home in Buckden; talk of JB's fiddle; JB tunes up and discusses Bob Pegg and Carol Pegg; plays part of unidentified tune; plays dance tunes 'Buttered Peas', 'Huntsman's Chorus' and [unidentified]; discuss JB learning the fiddle; JB leader of a local string band (drummer, JB's son), as his father had been (JB's uncle in it also); discuss song/tune ownership, father singing 'Watercress Girl' (JB plays the tune); plays tune to 'Don't Change the Old One for the New'; plays a tune to a song about Wharfedale farms/farmers, written by Reginald ?Tewford; reference to Swaledale songs, including 'Swaledale' and 'White Cockade'; JB attempts several of the tunes played by the string band; talks about his father as a fiddler, playing hornpipes including 'Devil Amongst the Tailors'; discuss American/Scottish tunes with devil in the title; discuss tune names; JB's father's job as a farmer; the Beresford family in Upper Wharfedale; discuss the song 'Skipton Ram'; talk of a songwriter who plays with JB, and who has written songs about JB and the Denby Dale Pie; talk of JB's work as a mechanic, publican, tenant farmer, lorry/coach driver; motor bike accident and its affect on JB's fiddle playing; local sheep breeds; sheep farming; butter/cheesemaking; pig keeping/bacon curing. Jackie Beresford talks about Wharfedale farms, windmills to power generators; JB's family (jobs, background, music playing); Wharfedale string band - payment for playing at dances/weddings, c. 1910/1920; the song 'Skipton Ram', and another re. otter hunting; learning tunes; the local pub.
Metadata
| Identifier | ch35gs5l |
| IRN | 414698 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A647r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ch35gs5l |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Attebery, Louie W, Green, Anthony E |
| Date | 26 April 1972 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 64' 05". |