Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about singing in the village pub, including on Christmas Eve; the disallowing of singing in pubs, especially in Scarborough; pubs in Filey where there used to be singing; farm songs and singing whilst working; songs learned; closeness of farm lads; the organisation of pub singing; sings and comments on 'My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl'; meeting future wife; women in pubs; Chapel and hymn singing at Filey; sings 'If You Were the Only Girl in the World'; fragment of a hymn [ 'At the Cross, At the Cross']; sings [ 'Tell Me the Old Old Story'], and attempts 'Christians Awake'; talks about forgetting/remembering old songs; sings [ 'Take Me Where the Lights are Rather Low']; talks about threshing work on farms, and travelling with the thresher in bad weather; describes the threshing machine; gardening; sings and comments on 'The Struggle and Strife You Find in This Life'. 14 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | dff6tkg3 |
| IRN | 414472 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A421r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/dff6tkg3 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 12 December 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 35' 21". |