Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Description
[Collector announcement]; Thomas Simpson, recorded at home in Lebberston; talks about his song repertoire; sings 'Since I've Had a Row with the Wife'; recitation about two Yorkshire lads in London; recitation [ 'Mr. Jackson Had an Ass'], learned from local people, about Lebberston villagers - talks about those who wrote it and those referred to in it; TS's biographical details (born in Cayton), places lived, employment, living in Lebberston; favourite songs; sings 'I Believe', 'So Still Runs the River' and 'Tears' [ Ken Dodd songs]; learning and remembering songs; sings [unidentified]; hearing songs on radio/records; remembering songs and concentration when singing; sings fragment of unidentified song; types of song sung (comic, old fashioned); favourite songs; sings 'Down Where the Swanee River Flows'; stories/meaning in songs; songs/music in youth; pub singing; tries to remember comic song; singing games in the pub as a youngster; sings 'Be Kind to Your Parents'; pub singing. Sings [first line: 'When I was a jolly young ploughboy'], and gives story behind the song; sings [unidentified]; sings 'The Little Red Herring'; learning songs from records; singing at the Bull Inn, Gristhorpe; changes in pubs and the effect of juke boxes; sings 'Red Sails in the Sunset' and 'Granny's Song at Twilight'; song preferences; song performance and using a microphone; sings [unidentified]; audiences and young people's songs; describes his daily routine; sings part of [first line: 'Come with me to the races']; sings [unidentified] and 'When You and I Were Seventeen'. Continues on tapes LAVC/SRE/A418r and LAVC/SRE/A419r. 10 of 68.
Metadata
| Identifier | gpsx5qqt |
| IRN | 414468 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRE/A417r |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/gpsx5qqt |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Audiotape Sound Recordings |
| Creator(s) | Sullivan, Keith Frederick |
| Date | 11 December 1976 |
| Size and Medium | 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 88' 14". |